kaptain chump Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 alright dudes: I cant seem to find an answer to this past the sea of advertisements on google When i right click on the desktop or pretty much do anything that runs through explorer.exe, windows instaler pops up and says "the feature you are trying to use is on a network resourse that is unavailable". ive searched and im at the end of the road. please help me Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/293097-annoying-issue-with-windows-xp/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
1337-podder Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 xp home or pro? and sp1 or sp2 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/293097-annoying-issue-with-windows-xp/#findComment-585571087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaptain chump Posted March 5, 2005 Author Share Posted March 5, 2005 pro sp2 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/293097-annoying-issue-with-windows-xp/#findComment-585571092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
k22 Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 there is something in your context menu that is hosing explorer. remove the offending entry and it will go away http://www.soft32.com/download_76225.html sort by "Context menus" and remove/restore non-Microsoft items one by one until it is fixed. the offending item is probably related to symantec antivirus (btw, did you uninstall it before this started happening??) PS. I've only used this sparingly and I do not know that it can undo or restore removed items. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/293097-annoying-issue-with-windows-xp/#findComment-585571096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trance Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 actually, if you read the message, it is Symantec biting you in the butt... uninstall it and reinstall it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/293097-annoying-issue-with-windows-xp/#findComment-585571098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaptain chump Posted March 5, 2005 Author Share Posted March 5, 2005 symantec IS uninstalled...thats the thing. i started getting this error when it was installed so i uninstalled it for some unknown reason. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/293097-annoying-issue-with-windows-xp/#findComment-585571100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
k22 Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 symantec IS uninstalled...thats the thing. i started getting this error when it was installed so i uninstalled it for some unknown reason. 585571100[/snapback] read my message above and that will fix it Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/293097-annoying-issue-with-windows-xp/#findComment-585571102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaptain chump Posted March 5, 2005 Author Share Posted March 5, 2005 read my message above and that will fix it 585571102[/snapback] thanks for that excellent tool bud. i found the offending item related to norton and effectively disabled that annoying garbage. i appreciate your help :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/293097-annoying-issue-with-windows-xp/#findComment-585571120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
k22 Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 no problem. i've been helping people with similar issues at least 3 times a week on this board lately. i wonder if we could get a sticky for problems with explorer/context menus that we could just refer people to... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/293097-annoying-issue-with-windows-xp/#findComment-585571126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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