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by darryl

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I have a customer with a dell machine running windows xp home. Internet Explorer has a Proxy setting checked with a web address that cannot be reached. Internet Explorer will give a no dns found error. Even if you uncheck this setting the computer replaces it on boot up. If you leave the computer running for several days the setting stays unchecked. I am trying to find a way to turn this off permanantly. Any suggestions would be helpful.

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by cg it

Sounds like the Dell machine used to be on a network and a mandatory profile was made for it because settings are not saved upon log off & exit, which is the normal default setup. Changing mandatory profiles is changing the users Ntuser file from a .man file to a .dat file.

by quintar51

I know some ISPs, such as cable providers, also have the same setting which does come back also.

You can try using group policy. go to start, run, gpedit.msc

go to User Configuration->Administrative templates->Windows components->Internet Explorer.

On the right side, look for Disable Caching for AutoProxy scripts. Try enabling it, unchecking the proxy in IE and rebooting.

just an idea.

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