Netsh and Automatically Detect settings

Hi All,

I have 'Automatically detect settings' checked in IE and the browser is picking the wpad file as expected. Having said that, I have been unsuccessful trying to set this proxy setting on a system wide level using netsh.

I have executed the following command in netsh: "winhttp import proxy source=ie"

I would have expected netsh to pick up the proxy from the auto detect settings but unfortunately no proxy is set as a result of executing that netsh command. Strange enough, if I were to set the proxy settings manually in IE, the netsh import command would pick this change and set the proxy successfully.

Please note that I have attempted this on Windows XP and Windows 7 (using both 32 and 64 versions of netsh) and the 'winhttp import source=ie' only works on XP when automatically detect settings is set in IE.

Any reason why netsh isn't picking up my auto detect settings on Win7?

Thanks

mskh