proxy server setting keeps ticking itself

[soozle]

I have a laptop user who swears blind that his "use a proxy server..." checkbox in IE6 keeps ticking or unticking itself. It needs to be ticked while in the office and unticked when out of the office. He says he goes through the steps I showed him, clicks OK (not cancel) twice but when he goes back to check the tick is still there - or still not there whichever it shouldn't be at the time. If I go and tick it for him it works, with every other user we have, it works fine. If I watch him it works - if his wife watches him it doesn't ???
Before I call him a liar (again) does anybody know of anything that could cause this to happen ?
TIA
Soozle

 

[SimonDavies]

Why not create two reg files and place them on his desktop, one that configures the proxy, one that disables it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"ProxyEnable"=dword:00000001
"ProxyHttp1.1"=dword:00000000
"ProxyServer"="

http://ProxyServername:80"

Above would enable it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"ProxyEnable"=dword:00000000
"ProxyHttp1.1"=dword:00000000
"ProxyServer"=""

Should disable it, this way he presses one when he is at home and then the other when he is in the office (call them Office.reg and Home.reg) that way as long as he hit's to correct one then he shouldn't have any issues.

SimonD.

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[soozle]

Nice one - I have just written 2 vbs scripts to do the same and called them "office" and "everywhere else" otherwise he'd be asking which one to use on the train...
;-)