In a multiuser operating system such as Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Mac OS X, applications are generally installed in a folder from which all users can run them, such as C:\Program Files (Windows) or /Applications (Macintosh). Only users with administrative privileges can install applications into such folders in a multiuser operating system.
You can customize Dreamweaver in many ways. Dreamweaver prevents any user's customized configuration from affecting any other user's customized configuration. To prevent your customizations from affecting others, the first time you run Dreamweaver in one of the multiuser operating systems that it recognizes, the application automatically creates copies of a variety of configuration files. These user configuration files are stored in a folder belonging to you.
Note: In older operating systems (such as Windows 98), a single set of Dreamweaver configuration files is shared by all users, even if the operating system is configured to support multiple users.
If you reinstall or upgrade Dreamweaver after installing Dreamweaver MX 2004, Dreamweaver automatically makes backup copies of existing user configuration files, so that if you've customized those files by hand, you still have access to the changes you made. For information about customizing configuration files by hand, see "Customizing Dreamweaver" in Extending Dreamweaver Help (Help > Extensions > Extending Dreamweaver).
When you uninstall Dreamweaver from a multiuser system, Dreamweaver removes each user configuration folder.
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