when I go to my hotamail account, there is a message in taskbar 'detecting
proxy setting' which remain there for quite some time before the page is
opened. How can I rectify it ? thanks.

Hi noname :-)

If do not need to use a proxy, try the following and see if it helps

Proxy setting errors or "Detecting Proxy Server"

Go to Tools> Internet Options>Connections
Click the Lan settings button.
Uncheck "Automatically detect settings".

Hope this helps

Jan
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"when I go to my hotamail account, there is a message in taskbar 'detecting
> proxy setting' which remain there for quite some time before the page is
> opened. How can I rectify it ? thanks.