Ive been running Windows 7 for 10 months now maybe and I love it... Except I hate to do my web dev work on it due to admin permissions/file permissions. Yes I am an administrator on the computer. At first, I could not save any .php, .txt, .html, etc., etc. file unless I opened that program by right-clicking and 'Run As Administrator'. Doing this let me actually edit and save files w/o getting a 'dont have sufficient permissions' warning. So to fix this, I make a shortcut/macro to open Notepad, PHPDesigner, Dreamweaver and SmartFTP as Administrator. I now use these shortcuts to launch these programs. Now that its setup, not really an issue. But it has been painful working since the above fix due to other permission issues. Essentially, drag and drop is shot when trying to open a file from a windowed folder and directly into Notepad/PHPDesigner/Dreamweaver/SmartFTP. If I try to drag-and-drop any .php/.html/etc. file from my project folder on my desktop to edit it in PHPDesigner, it wont let me open it. I have to go to the file menu File>Open, and navigate to the directory to open it. I cant drag and drop into FTP as well. Yes I am an administrator on the computer. This might seem trivial but this has really annoyed me to no end. Take away drag-and-drop and your experience changes dramatically. Any ideas?
How about use VirtualBox to create a virtual machine like windows xp or linux, then do the web development work in it.
Boss, You purely need Linux Environment! because Developers like it... You can use Windows XP with combination to Ubuntu
I like Windows 7 also. At first, I was really having a hard time to use that Operating system. But as time goes by, I am more familiar to this operating system.
I use Dreamweaver (and lots of other editors) on Windows 7 and have none of the file permission issues you have. I've also not heard of this before. Although you are admin, were they installed under a different user? This is the only reason I can think of. Two solutions: first take a look at the exe's themselves for these applications. It might be that they are owned by a user with less permissions (even if they were installed by you). In the compatability tab you can also select to always run the app as admin there (which will avoid your shortcut fix). Second, try uninstalling them and then reinstalling with 'run as admin' on the installer. Although admittedly I did not need to do this when I installed Dreamweaver on my PC. Are all of the files your editing in the same folder? You can get a similar issue if a folders permissions are corrupted. I've had this and it can mean you can't create filed or folders in a folder unless your the admin. But this is very doubtful if it is occuring over multiple folders. Personally I love web development on Windows 7 because as I tend to have more windows open for web dev then I do for application development (explorers, browsers, editors, color picker and others rather then a single IDE). In Windows 7 you can hold Start + arrow keys to move windows around, which is damn useful for this.