Hi Please can someone explain how to totally disable WPAD discovery on Windows 7 (Enterprise x32) with IE8. I have removed the ticks from "Automatically detect settings" and "Use automatic configuration script" from IE LAN settings dialog. Have also diabled the "WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service", and configured GPO to "Disable caching of Auto-Proxy scripts" and "Disable changing Automatic Configuration settings". Netsh winhttp show proxy returns "Direct Access (no proxy server)". Running a wireshark trace when connecting to a new network reveals the machine is still sending out DNS queries for WPAD & WPAD.domain etc, so I think there must be some other requirement to totally disable the WPAD discovery mechanism. ThanksDouks

> Running a wireshark trace when connecting to a new network What do you mean with when connecting to a new network ? Do you see the requests when starting IE?Sumesh P - Microsoft Online Community Support

When pysically pluggin in to a network or establishing a vpn once connected. The vpn is ssl & I guess makes use of IE behind the scenes.Douks

Do you have TMG firewall client installed? or other enterprise firewall solution? Sumesh P - Microsoft Online Community Support

This is not IE btw. Unless you are seeing the packets when you launch IE. Sumesh P - Microsoft Online Community Support

Do you have TMG firewall client installed? Are you seeing the WPAD requests when launching IE ? Sumesh P - Microsoft Online Community Support

Do you still need assistnace with this issue? Sumesh P - Microsoft Online Community Support

Go ahead and stop the webclient and mrxdav services. net stop webclient net stop mrxdav See if the issue recurs. Make sure the services are not started again. Sumesh P - Microsoft Online Community Support