Enable proxy servers in Opera 6?

[anhedonia]

How do I enable proxy servers in Opera 6? Well, actually, I know how to do it, it's just that the option is stuck off. I can enable it but it just stays stuck off, no matter how many times I enable.


Anyone had this problem before?

[tandoc]

maybe reinstall it?

[anhedonia]

Are there any other possible solutions apart from that? I mean, if I do downoad the full program and install it again, what is to stop the same problem occuring?

I can't think why 'disable proxy servers' would have been locked on, I know I disabled them once for a while, then enabled it again, and I did this a few times over the space of a few months, but it never got locked off before... Suddenly it has and I don't know why. Perhaps in the main Preferences window, there is a more advance option regarding the enabling/disabling of proxy servers?

It isn't really all that important, I suppose... Does anybody know if it is possible to view Hotmail with the proxy servers option disabled in Opera 6? Because at the same time proxy servers got locked off, Hotmail also would not accept my browser, and this is the only thing I can think of that would stop it. So really the only annoying thing is Hotmail not working and I have to open IE *shudder*.