Customizing Dreamweaver In A Multiuser Environment - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER 8-EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Manual

To turn off Dreamweaver encoding options:
1. Select Edit > Preferences, and select the Code Rewriting category.
2.
Deselect either or both Special Characters options.
For information on the other Code Rewriting preferences, see Using Dreamweaver.
Customizing Dreamweaver in a multiuser
environment
You can customize Dreamweaver in a multiuser operating system such as Windows 2000,
Windows XP, or Mac OS X. Dreamweaver prevents any user's customized configuration from
affecting any other user's customized configuration. To accomplish this goal, the first time you
run Dreamweaver in a multiuser operating system that it recognizes, Dreamweaver copies
various configuration files into a user Configuration folder for you. When you customize
Dreamweaver by using dialog boxes and panels, the application modifies your user
Configuration files instead of modifying the Dreamweaver Configuration files. To customize
Dreamweaver by editing a configuration file in a multiuser environment, edit the appropriate
user Configuration file, rather than editing the files in the Dreamweaver Configuration folder.
To make a change that affects most users, you can edit a Dreamweaver Configuration file, but
users who already have corresponding user-configuration files will not see the change. In
general, if you want to make a change that affects all the users, it's best to create an extension
and install it using the Extension Manager.
In older operating systems (Windows 98, Windows ME, and Mac OS 9.x), a single set of
Dreamweaver Configuration files is shared by all users, even if the operating system is
configured to support multiple users.
The location of the user's Configuration folder depends on the user's platform.
Windows 2000 and Windows XP platforms use the following location:
drive:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Macromedia\
Dreamweaver 8\Configuration
In Windows XP, this folder may be inside a hidden folder.

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