The Core Weather widget, for example. It's stuck showing my the weather from Puerta Vallarta. As soon as I ask it to pull local weather, my firewall starts showing dropped requests to various internet sites on port 80 from my workstation. The requests should be going to a proxy server per my internet settings.
I'm having issues with widgets that try to pull information via HTTP - the weather widgets, for example. I have my internet settings in XP configured to use a proxy server (no auth required). IE uses the proxy correctly. However, the weather widget does not. I can see the widget trying to directly access the internet via HTTP by watching my firewall logs. Is there some DesktopX configuration page I'm not seeing where I need to set up networking properties?