title: What is overriding Windows proxy settings (inserting "vsts-proxy-installed-indicator") and how do I turn it off?
body: <p>I have a number of machines, all of which have Visual Studio installed, where something (presumably visual studio) is overriding the proxy settings: setting up localhost and some random port for both HTTP and HTTPS. In the "Do not use proxy server" box, it puts <code>&lt;vsts-proxy-installed-indicator&gt;</code> which is presumably a tag so it know it's done it.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/nUWxK.png" alt="VSTS proxy settings"></p>
  
  <p>This occasionally prevents browsers from working on my desktop, and more recently, changed it on our build server which caused the code signing step (which connects to an external timestamp server) to fail all day until I finally found this proxy issue. </p>
  
  <p>What is changing these settings? Why is it changing them? How do I turn it off?</p>
  
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  <p>Note, there is a serverfault question about this as well: <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/253231/what-is-inserting-vsts-proxy-installed-indicator">What is inserting “vsts-proxy-installed-indicator”?</a> but since this is a Visual Studio-specific question, I thought it might be better to ask here.</p>