One thing to note… And I’m on Win7 if interested but it does not make a difference….. 1. after making the changes above do a restart (solution#3 not really needed for me) a restart is needed as I was not able to do the above without a restart. 2. In the Lan Settings also uncheck the “se automated configuration Script” as welll… the configuration script is a JavaScript file that contains logic to determine whether to use a proxy and what proxy to use for a given target resource. (.pac) often times has issues from earlier versions of IE as well as OS’s the ‘automatic config script’ is utilized… It resufaces and checks it self back in the Lan Settings when corrupted. you have to regsvr32 /u ahiehelp.dll to unhinder the problem…

Anyway thanks again for getting me on the right track… cheers