I'll give that a try, thanks!

Thanks, although mine was off the whole time. I haven't had any issues for a while so I wonder if some cumulative update didn't fix it.

You obviously don't read my posts with any comprehension skills. Oh well, I gave it a try. "Possible infection"? LMFAO.

Thanks for trying to help though.

Hopefully somebody else can supply me...

I am not getting proxy errors. I also have disabled background apps and there's no live tiles in my start menu.

I'm getting tons of proxy authentication popups, most likely because the start menu...

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I'm not going to them because the problem does not lie with them. The problem is with Windows 10's start menu trying to access the internet for some UNEXPLAINED reason. I'm STILL...

I formatted and installed Windows 1511. It's not malware. Campus has various proxy servers - as is expected of a large institution. It's a personal laptop - they don't touch those and I'm a staff...

My issue isn't with them, it's with the start menu that wants to access the internet for some reason.

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Almost every time I open the start menu, I get the proxy authentication popup, despite ticking the box save the details. There are also a whole bunch of potential proxy servers which can be...