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by auyongtc

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My situation is like this:

I'm using Windows ME and it's IE browser couldn't use the proxy settings I set. It just won't point to the proxy server to browse. Reason I need to use the proxy, some sites I just can't get thru occasionally directly, so normally I use a free proxy server like Spaceproxy to access such sites.

Previously on my Win98, with IE 5 it didn't work either, but this WinME is of a clean fresh install and the proxy settings used to work on this Win98 before... don't know what happened...

The last time, I used an alternative approach, which is to use Netscape whenever I need to browse via a proxy, but I don't like it's browser, too slow!

Anyone out there can help me out?

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by dcassat

As a workaround, you can set your default gateway in network properties/TCP/ip to the address of the proxy. Then setup IE to use the LAN connection for browsing. That should work unless you have a problem with your Tcp/ip protocol stack.

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