Yes. I restarted my machine. There are other programs  running in my machine ( with .Net oriented programs). But not VWD. I tried all the possible things. I tried Uninstalled and re-installed everything( .Net Framework 2.0 and VWD Express ) But still hangs.Open Website option is working but Not New Website.  Please help me.

thats really weird and i assume theres no message error too before it hangs... il try to get some opinions of my friend and try to get back to you later...

Check the Administrator Tools -> Event Logs -> Application, and see if there are any errors logged by VS.  My first guess is templates could not be loaded. 

You could try to shut down VS, then from a command line navigate to the folder containing devenv.exe, and run

      devenv.exe /setup

which will force all project and project item templates to re-expand.

VWD hangs intermittently. Sometimes it runs for hours with no problems, then it will crash and crash and crash. The symptoms are simple - my machine just freezes and I have to use task manager to stop VWD. When I restart my machine - things are (usually) OK for awhile.There are lots of events in the event log but they all point to the same response on the MS website. "...no articles in the knowledge base". (XP pro SP2).

Anyone have any clues on what needs mending?

Not sure waht you mean by "which editor" I'm using VWD Express.

I have not detected a pattern that triggers the crashes ,

The last time it happened, I was in Solution Explorer, clicking and dragging a file from the main directory to a subdirectory.

Regarda

Ken

If application works after reboot or cold start and then deteriorates with time, especially with random crashes, I would suggest checking CPU temperature trends. Multithreaded applications like VS may consume a lot of CPU power, causing temperature rise and if heatsink ir fan is not adequate (or dusty), CPU or RAM may overheat causing random application failures. SpeedFan is a good free temperature monitoring utility.

Just a thought :-)

I'm using C# and I  have a .css file in the themes section.

Hope this helps to track down the problem.

Thanks

Ken

I looked at the speedfan website. It has requirements that seem to imply that I must disable Norton. I don't like the sound of that so I'll try to get along without it.

My PC is a 3Ghz Dell 8400 in a huge tower case which does not seem to be showing any signs of overheating but I suppose that one never really knows until you test. The CPU inside the machine is in a box which is a  cube of side about 4".

I'm not getting random errors in any other applications so I feel that it must be something that is VWD specific.

Thanks for the thought    ooo:-)