WPAD Proxy Reset

Posted by robd on October 26, 2017
Proxy, Windows 7

Had a strange problem where the proxy was forcing IE to an incorrect proxy server so to fix:

1.Clear the Internet Explorer cache completely: ActiveX Controls, Cookies, History, etc..

2.Close all instances of Internet Explorer.

3.Delete all WPAD script instances. Open a command window as administrator and type the following command:

del \wpad*.dat /s

4.Clear the DNS and Netbios name caches. Open a command window as administrator and type the following commands:

ipconfig /flushdns

nbtstat –R

Done.

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