Hi all,

We run a proxy server here for web logging and all our employees are required to go through it when they access the internet. However, we've had a couple cases wherein IE8 does not store the proxy password - the authentication box will appear repeatedly, sometimes dozens of times, when visiting certain pages (I tested it with hp.com this morning and ran into the problem).

Checking the "Remember my password" box does nothing - the password field and the checkbox are both cleared the next time the window pops up (usually half a second later).

Has anyone else run into this and figured out how to solve it? Aside from saying "switch to Firefox" (which probably isn't the best thing to say to the company president when he's used to IE and when, by all rights, IE should clean up its act), I'm not sure what else to try to force it to save the password.

This bugged me to no end in work!

This only happened to me during browsing of our intranet, but I'm sure changing this setting in the Internet page will yield the same result.

Go to IE8, Tools>Internet Options. Security Tab. Click Internet, then Custom Level at the bottom.

Scroll all the way down. The very last option - User Authentication - click the third radio button, "Automatic Login with current username and password".

This should automatically try to logon to pages that your proxy server requests a password for, hopefully eliminating the message boxes. This started happening to me randomly (on IE7) about a year and a bit ago, and now after a complete work PC reinstall, its back again, so its probably within an update MS pushed out not long ago. I think.

Awesome. It's installing updates right now but as soon as that's done I'll give your method a try.

Tried it and...
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Hot damn, it works!

Thanks a million, pasty. This is going in my little bag o' tricks.

No prob, glad it worked!