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Something is disabling access to the proxy settings in IE on my (work) laptop. IE is set to use the corporate proxy, so applications that use IE's proxy settings don't work when I take the laptop home. I've removed the local group policy setting "Disable changing proxy settings" using gpedit.msc (I'm in the local Administrators group). However the check-box and edit controls on the LAN Settings page are still disabled. (The "Use a proxy server" check-box is checked, the proxy address and port are filled in, and the other check-box and edit controls are clear.)

What else do I need to do before it'll let me clear the proxy settings?

(I will ask our IT Support the same question tomorrow and let you know what they say, but my prediction is that they won't understand the question.)

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If your corporate policy is to disable editing you should be speaking to your IT dept. SF is for administrator's. – t1nt1n Jan 16 at 20:56
Thanks! I am a system administrator, among other things, and a domain administrator, but not by training an administrator of domains. When I ask my colleagues about this tomorrow, I won't be asking them to fix it for me, but to explain the nature of the setting to me. Pretty much exactly what I've asked here. – AnonymousCoward Jan 16 at 21:13
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The "disable changes" policy needs to be turned off for the user as well as for the local machine (e.g., by deleting the appropriate Policies registry value under both HKLM and HKCU). Obvious really!

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