error creating the web proxy specified in the 'system.net/defaultproxy' configuration section

Question

I receive the error from a third party application exe. The Application is only a exe, no config file or others.

\"error creating the web proxy specified in the \'sy

Answer 1

I ran "netsh winsock reset" (as administrator) and reset the PC to solve this problem. It was happening when trying to install a winforms application - which worked fine on all the other PCs in the office.

A clue was that Chrome wasn't able to access the internet on this PC - and the solution to that fixed both problems.