The proxy server isn't responding: check your proxy settings 127.0.0.1:8877

I shut down my laptop one evening and when i turned it on and tried to get back online i got the message i typed above. it sugested i go to tools> Internet options > Connections. If on a LAN, click on LAN Settings. I did this but the check is in the use a proxy server for your lan. I tried to change this but it will not let me rather when i do try to check the automatically detect settings then get out of these settings it comes right back to the use proxy server box.

Is there some one there that might be able to suggest to me what i can do to check this out ?

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