Koldov Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 Hi All, Need some help and advice! A student teacher asked me to connect her laptop to our network to use the internet, so I put in the wireless key for our network and the proxy server details in IE. I had also got a VB script so she could use it at home, however she came to me today to say it didn't work at home even after using the script. Anyway, it turns out that I cannot remove the tick from 'USE PROXY' in IE options (rather, I can remove it but it is back as soon as I close and open the options box). She leaves on Friday, so would really like to think there is a way I can solve this, to a) make me look less incompetent and b)leave her with a working IE! Kol.
Koldov Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 I'm not sure, I will go and check. It's just a normal home user laptop and I didn't join it to the domain so it isn't any of our policies. What would cause that to happen? Kol.
hallb15 Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 Whats in your script file? I use a simple .reg file to remove proxy settings as below: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings] "ProxyEnable"=dword:00000001 "ProxyServer"="" "ProxyOverride"=""
Koldov Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 This enables the proxy: Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyServer", "PROXY.SERVER.GOES.HERE:PORT" WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyEnable", "1", "REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyOverride", "" This one disables: Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyServer", "" WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyEnable", "0", "REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyOverride", "" Just two icons on the desktop, labelled home and school (lol), nice and easy for them to double-click depending on where they are... Kol.
hallb15 Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 Ha ha, well done for spotting my deliberate mistake!
Koldov Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 (edited) How do I check policy on a Win 7 Home machine? I've removed the proxy setting manually from the registry and they keep popping back in! Kol. Edited December 9, 2013 by Koldov
Koldov Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 It's a Windows 7 Home Premium laptop, it has Virgin Media Security... Can't see anything that would let me enter the proxy in the first place and now not let me take it out! Kol.
Duke5A Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 It is most likely third party software preventing changes to IE. It's either a security suite or some spyware that claims to guard IE from unwanted changes (homepage, search providers, proxy, etc). I just had this problem last week with a staff laptop. I couldn't change the proxy until I cleaned the machine out.
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