Windows could not automatically detect this network's proxy settings

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Recently, I have noticed a small caution triangle appearing with my network icon on the task bar. When I right click and troubleshoot, it comes with this message. Windows could not automatically detect this network's proxy settings. My internet has been very slow lately, but I'm wondering if this is a problem with my network? or is this something that my ISP has to fix?

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Check Internet Options (from Control Panel or Internet Explorer Tools / Options /Connections Tab / LAN Settings and make sure Proxy Server is unchecked even if using Firefox. Check settings in Firefox in Tools / Options /Advanced Connections / Settings (should be either use system proxy settings or no proxy).

Check for malware especially using malwarebytes.

Try these two commands in that order in an elevated command prompt. Do the first one first then reboot and try. If still bad try the second.

netsh winsock reset

netsh int ipv4 reset

If these don't help, please post the output of an ipconfig /all command

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I had the same problem this morning--couldn't connect on one computer but could on the other. Got the same message about not being able to detect the proxy settings. However, I used System Restore to reverse some changes that had happened during the night and that corrected the problem.

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2017-12-27T22:06:32+00:00

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.125]

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C:\WINDOWS\system32>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : home

Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::7def:d6a:eef1:e5c4%2

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.187

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 1:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:4137:9e76:306b:211:3f57:fe44

Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::306b:211:3f57:fe44%7

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::

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Anonymous

2017-12-17T08:11:15+00:00

C:\Users\User>ipconfig/all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : User-PC

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Mixed

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : local

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection* 9:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Anchorfree HSS VPN Adapter

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-FF-FF-84-34-A9

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection 2:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 08-3E-8E-06-D4-16

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : local

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 802.11n Network Adapter

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 08-3E-8E-06-D4-16

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::a821:1a04:42ed:4e4e%12(Preferred)

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.109(Preferred)

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 17 Desember 2017 15:02:56

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 17 Desember 2017 17:02:57

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 302530190

DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-1F-ED-1E-CD-B8-88-E3-A9-C2-B7

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 08-3E-8E-06-D4-16

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::43c:ae0c:fe2:b6db%11(Preferred)

Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.182.219(Preferred)

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 246974691

DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-1F-ED-1E-CD-B8-88-E3-A9-C2-B7

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1

fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1

fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1

NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
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Anonymous

2017-12-17T08:09:30+00:00

C:\Users\User>ipconfig/all command

Error: unrecognized or incomplete command line.

USAGE:

ipconfig [/allcompartments] [/? | /all |

/renew [adapter] | /release [adapter] |

/renew6 [adapter] | /release6 [adapter] |

/flushdns | /displaydns | /registerdns |

/showclassid adapter |

/setclassid adapter [classid] |

/showclassid6 adapter |

/setclassid6 adapter [classid] ]

where

adapter Connection name

(wildcard characters * and ? allowed, see examples)

Options:

/? Display this help message

/all Display full configuration information.

/release Release the IPv4 address for the specified adapter.

/release6 Release the IPv6 address for the specified adapter.

/renew Renew the IPv4 address for the specified adapter.

/renew6 Renew the IPv6 address for the specified adapter.

/flushdns Purges the DNS Resolver cache.

/registerdns Refreshes all DHCP leases and re-registers DNS names

/displaydns Display the contents of the DNS Resolver Cache.

/showclassid Displays all the dhcp class IDs allowed for adapter.

/setclassid Modifies the dhcp class id.

/showclassid6 Displays all the IPv6 DHCP class IDs allowed for adapter

.

/setclassid6 Modifies the IPv6 DHCP class id.

The default is to display only the IP address, subnet mask and

default gateway for each adapter bound to TCP/IP.

For Release and Renew, if no adapter name is specified, then the IP address

leases for all adapters bound to TCP/IP will be released or renewed.

For Setclassid and Setclassid6, if no ClassId is specified, then the ClassId is

removed.

Examples:

> ipconfig ... Show information

> ipconfig /all ... Show detailed information

> ipconfig /renew ... renew all adapters

> ipconfig /renew EL* ... renew any connection that has its

name starting with EL

> ipconfig /release *Con* ... release all matching connections,

eg. "Local Area Connection 1" or

"Local Area Connection 2"

> ipconfig /allcompartments ... Show information about all

compartments

> ipconfig /allcompartments /all ... Show detailed information about all

compartments
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