0XD000005E Error when trying to Sign into Microsoft Account in Windows 8

Hi all,


Windows 8 consumer preview is out and can be downloaded form internet. Unfortunately some of the functionality breaks behind proxy servers (which hopefully will become thing of past). I got error code 0XD000005E when trying to connect my Microsoft Account with Windows 8. The problem is actually with the proxy settings (not all locations use IE settings by default :() Setting the same from command prompt (Running as ADMIN), using netsh command will do the trick.

CMD.exe (as admin)

C:\windows\system32>netsh
netsh>winhttp
netsh winhttp>import proxy source=ie

The last step will import proxy settings from ie and use them for  all applications running system wide. Same also holds true for earlier versions of windows, but as they were not that connected to the cloud, it just seemed to work.


Setting the proxy settings this way will ensure you can always access the online account(windows store, calender, mail etc).


Thanx for reading:)

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Right Click Slow in Windows 7 ?

Hi all,
Recently i started facing a peculiar problem with Windows 7, my right click context menu started taking forever to load. Unfortunately this was due to faulty shell extension by PowerIso or Tortoise SVN (I dont exactly know which one, but enabling either one gave problems so i assume both were giving some problems in Win7 64bit). Right click slowdowns are caused by improperly coded shell extensions which load when we right click. Disabling them do the trick.

Please follow http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm for more information on the same. Although searching for individual misbehaving extensions is better. 

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