From: John Beckett 

"Ned"  wrote in message
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> How do I go about tracking down what is changing that setting?

Particularly if the computer is a member of a domain, it may be that a
policy is changing the IE proxy settings.

If running XP, from memory, you would run 'gpresult /v >gp.txt' at
command prompt, then look in file gp.txt.

John

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