Expression Web -2 repeatedly Crashes on microsoft windows server 2008

Question

Can anyone help me fix EW-2 from crashing?
things Ive tryed to prevent EW-2 from crashing while I'm working:
installed and ran FPC Cleaner often
Added Expression web 2 too (DEP). turned off Data Execution prevention for EW-2
I have McAfee antivirus running on this server.
 How agrivating to have these constant interuptions and crashes while I'm working on my web site.
It usually happens when I click to open another file in folder view, then, goodby expression web 2. error reporting has sent many reports to M/S. 

Answer 1

Windows Server 2008 isn't a supported operating system for Expression Web. It only supports XP Service Pack 2 and Vista.

Answer 2

If you have a spare PC Box with EW on it, I would use remote desktop and use it that way on the server OS.  EW2 isn't that large an app for it, and like the other posters said, it's not made for Windows Server.  Virtual PC with EW2 is another option, though I think that would work slower.

Answer 3

I have M/S visual studio 2008 on the server and it runs without error. there are a few things like spell check i like about expression web 2. i'm running it in my home office on a windows xp machine and updating the web site on the server over the network. I've also got vista 64 bit on another workstation i can remote desktop too.

i think the expression web team missed something not including one of Microsofts operating systems
microsoft windows server 2008
 in there compatablity.

Answer 4

I don't, the people Expression Web was created for aren't going to be running a servr OS.

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Answer 5

Server OSs have enough to do as servers. There's no call for them to be a universal OS on which anything can run; that's not a priority for a server. Granted, some things will run or run to a certain extent, but that's not by design, nor should it be. There's no sense in diluting a server OS's performance when there are plenty of OSs that people can use. It's kinda like complaining that a Mack truck won't go 0-60 in under 5 secs.; that's not what it's for.

Answer 6

I don't, the people Expression Web was created for aren't going to be running a servr OS.

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I agree, Cheryl. I have a licensed copy of Server 2008 that I've never even installed. I'm not running a local server and don't need it, and EW is not the only productivity program by a long shot that isn't supported and that I use regularly. For example, a check of the supported OSes for Adobe Design Premium CS4 shows that Server 2008 is not among them. That's all I've checked so far, but that's as far as I need to go. EW2 and CS4 are critical elements of my workflow, and if they're not supported on Server 2008, that's enough for me.

Server OSes are for, well, servers. Expecting all productivity applications to run on a server OS is probably a tad unrealistic. Might be nice if it worked, but not something that I imagine the designers of either the OS or the applications had in mind.

cheers,
scott

P.S. I still wish that MS had left the bloody "Designer" in the name of Expression Web. Removing it only served the marketing function of making it fit with the other one-word names of the Expression Studio family of products, while frequently leading to the confusion that it is a development tool. True, it has some limited development capability in its ASP.NET support, but its base function is still as a design tool. For developers, VWD or VS are much more powerful and appropriate, with sophisticated debuggers and Intellisense, context-sensitive Help and MSDN access, data handling and server management tools, project management, source control, deployment tools, the whole panoply of tools that developers need but that designers by and large don't want to have anything to do with. Leaving it as Expression Web Designer and more fully emphasizing its round-trip functionality for working with VS/VWD in a designer/developer partnership would have served both them and their customers much better. Expression Web Designer paired with Visual Web Developer would have provided a lot clearer message.

Answer 7

Server OSs have enough to do as servers. There's no call for them to be a universal OS on which anything can run; that's not a priority for a server. Granted, some things will run or run to a certain extent, but that's not by design, nor should it be. There's no sense in diluting a server OS's performance when there are plenty of OSs that people can use. It's kinda like complaining that a Mack truck won't go 0-60 in under 5 secs.; that's not what it's for.

I built a powerfull server, its fun, new and exciting to work on. I love to design and develope on it.
It only has to serve my one personnel web site.
Any way I uninstalled expression web from the server after the first post by Bill Pearson that it wasnt supported.
It seems everyone posting here agrees I was a very foolish man for even thinking I could design and develope on my server.
I hope this thread goes away.
I now regret asking the question

Answer 8

"I built a powerfull server, its fun, new and exciting to work on. I love to design and develope on it.
It only has to serve my one personnel web site.  ... It seems everyone posting here agrees I was a very foolish man for even thinking I could design and develope on my server."

I think a fairer reading would be not that you are foolish, but that you are using a server in a way that is far from typical.  You can certainly do this of course, but you'll occasionally run into situations like, well, the one you did here, software not supported for use on a server OS.

Answer 9

I run a server but that's for access control and security, I don't even have the web server running on it right now.

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Answer 10

jayirvin,

Threads take on a life of their own, twist and turn, don't take it personally or regret starting it. Who knows the wandering discussion may help someone else along the way.<g>

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Answer 11

Ah servers, they can be very fun.  I've set up a Team Fortress 2 server for friends, TF2 is fun by itself, but better when your admin. :D

Designer at Arms,

- Chad Adams

Answer 12

I have been using a computer running windows XP to develope on and Expression Web is crashing on it now.
Usually after I have edited a web page and then click on Default.master it will crash every time.

Answer 13

I have been using a computer running windows XP to develope on and Expression Web is crashing on it now.
Usually after I have edited a web page and then click on Default.master it will crash every time.

Go here: http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm and download FP Cleaner ( with Expression Web and SharePoint Designer support )
Download links are at the bottom of the page.
Run the functions that clear:
The Hidden Temporary files.
The Hidden Cache (*.web) files.

See if it helps.

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Answer 14

You might want to start a new thread for that.