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In Windows Vista Home Basic and Windows Vista Home Premium, VisualSite Designer may experience frequent crashes when trying to start up. This can happen even if you are running as an Administrator, and it is caused by Vista's very strict security settings.

To fix this, right-click on your VisualSite Designer shortcut icon, and select "Run as Administrator." This should properly launch VisualSite Designer for you. If it does, then great! You can continue to launch the program in this way, or you can go a step further and configure the shortcut to always run as administrator. Here's how:

1. Right-click the shortcut icon, and click Properties.
2. Click the Compatibility tab.
3. Here, put a checkmark by "Run this program as an administrator."
4. Click OK.

Now you can just double-click the icon normally to run VisualSite Designer.