I use my Win 7 notebook on an office network with a proxy during the day,
and on my home network w/o proxy at night. Used to be that WPAD configured
the proxy settings for me, but it stopped working a week or two ago; don't
recall when. I have to manually turn on "Use a proxy server" at the office
and turn it off again at home. "Automatically detect settings" is turned on.



Any idea how I can get it working again?

--
Jeff Vandervoort
JRVsystems
http://www.jrvsystems.com

I guess I should also mention that WPAD is working elsewhere in the office
network, despite not working not on my machine. And I can download
http://wpad.domainname.local/wpad.dat on my machine.

--
Jeff Vandervoort
JRVsystems
http://www.jrvsystems.com

"Jeff Vandervoort" <jeffv at jrvsystems dot com> wrote in message
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> I use my Win 7 notebook on an office network with a proxy during the day,
> and on my home network w/o proxy at night. Used to be that WPAD configured
> the proxy settings for me, but it stopped working a week or two ago; don't
> recall when. I have to manually turn on "Use a proxy server" at the office
> and turn it off again at home. "Automatically detect settings" is turned
> on.
>
> Any idea how I can get it working again?
>
> --
> Jeff Vandervoort
> JRVsystems
> http://www.jrvsystems.com

More info, in the increasingly unlikely case that anyone can actually help
with this...

I renamed the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\Wpad key, and let Windows create a new one. And it did, and with
the same values as were previously set for these networks.

Home network (no proxy):
WpadDecision = 0
WpadDecisionReason = 1

Work network (proxy):
WpadDecision = 1
WpadDecisionReason = 0

Since I don't find documentation for these registry values, I don't know if
the right decision is being reached, but given that they're opposite,
there's a good chance. It's clearly detecting a difference.

So then the question becomes, why isn't Windows changing proxy settings
between the two systems?

--
Jeff Vandervoort
JRVsystems
http://www.jrvsystems.com

"Jeff Vandervoort" <jeffv at jrvsystems dot com> wrote in message
news:#Xz$yD9xKHA.2012@newsgroup

> I guess I should also mention that WPAD is working elsewhere in the office
> network, despite not working not on my machine. And I can download
> http://wpad.domainname.local/wpad.dat on my machine.
>
> --
> Jeff Vandervoort
> JRVsystems
> http://www.jrvsystems.com
>
> "Jeff Vandervoort" <jeffv at jrvsystems dot com> wrote in message
> news:uUUEJmvxKHA.3560@newsgroup

>> I use my Win 7 notebook on an office network with a proxy during the day,
>> and on my home network w/o proxy at night. Used to be that WPAD
>> configured the proxy settings for me, but it stopped working a week or
>> two ago; don't recall when. I have to manually turn on "Use a proxy
>> server" at the office and turn it off again at home. "Automatically
>> detect settings" is turned on.
>>
>> Any idea how I can get it working again?
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Vandervoort
>> JRVsystems
>> http://www.jrvsystems.com

>