Desktop Connector - Cannot Find Server

Hey all,

I've looked everywhere for answers on this and havent been able to find any.  I hope someone out there can help me on this.  I have the desktop connector setup on my home computer for email access to outlook through my instinct.  Its been working fine, however my computer has been dogged slow.  I ran a registry cleanup/xp medic on the computer and now the desktop connector won't connect.  I get the generic "Cannot Find Server" error.  My computer is much faster now though :-)

pertinent log files are below: 

Connector
-- Begin Logging --
2009-04-14T18:50:15-05:00 [2888:3492]: (INFO) Slingshot Version: 6.6.8.501 (Build: 501)
2009-04-14T18:50:15-05:00 [2888:3492]: (INFO) Microsoft Windows XP. Service Pack 2 (Build 2600).
2009-04-14T18:50:15-05:00 [2888:3492]: (INFO) Outlook 2003.
2009-04-14T18:50:15-05:00 [2888:3492]: (INFO) Set logs max to 3072 kb.
2009-04-14T18:50:15-05:00 [2888:3492]: (INFO) Setting log days to preserve to 1.
2009-04-14T18:50:15-05:00 [2888:3492]: (INFO) NT Service available.
2009-04-14T18:50:15-05:00 [2888:3492]: (INFO) Service starting....
2009-04-14T18:50:15-05:00 [2888:3492]: (INFO) Service already started.
2009-04-14T18:50:15-05:00 [2888:3492]: (INFO) Using proxy configuration for Microsoft Internet Explorer.
2009-04-14T18:50:15-05:00 [2888:3492]: (INFO) HTTPS proxy detected: 127.0.0.1:9090
2009-04-14T18:50:15-05:00 [2888:3492]: (INFO) Connecting to 66.35.228.102:443 via HTTP tunnel at 127.0.0.1:9090
Tue Apr 14 18:50:25 EDT 2009 (2888-3492):   *** connect to [127:0:0:1]:9090 timedout
2009-04-14T18:50:25-05:00 [2888:3492]: (ERR) PROXY not responding: 127.0.0.1:9090
2009-04-14T18:50:25-05:00 [2888:3492]: (INFO) Connecting to 66.35.228.102:443 via HTTP tunnel at 127.0.0.1:443
-- Begin Logging --
2009-04-14T18:50:27-05:00 [3832:2516]: (INFO) Slingshot Version: 6.6.8.501 (Build: 501)
2009-04-14T18:50:27-05:00 [3832:2516]: (INFO) Microsoft Windows XP. Service Pack 2 (Build 2600).
2009-04-14T18:50:27-05:00 [3832:2516]: (INFO) Outlook 2003.
2009-04-14T18:50:27-05:00 [3832:2516]: (INFO) Set logs max to 3072 kb.
2009-04-14T18:50:27-05:00 [3832:2516]: (INFO) Setting log days to preserve to 1.
2009-04-14T18:50:27-05:00 [3832:2516]: (INFO) Slingshot is already running.
2009-04-14T18:50:28-05:00 [3832:1540:status]: (INFO) exiting status thread
2009-04-14T18:50:28-05:00 [3832:2516]: (INFO) Quitting

Slingshot
-- Begin Logging --
2009-04-14T18:55:38-05:00 [3716:3868]: (ERR) No cached connection to try!
2009-04-14T18:55:38-05:00 [3716:3868]: (INFO) Cannot connect to server.
2009-04-14T18:55:40-05:00 [3716:3868]: (INFO) Waiting for slingshot thread to exit...
2009-04-14T18:55:40-05:00 [3716:3868]: (INFO) Thread exited.
2009-04-14T18:55:40-05:00 [3716:3868]: (INFO) slingshot is now shut down
2009-04-14T18:55:40-05:00 [3716:3868]: (INFO) Exiting.

I'm not behind a proxy I've tried the "automatic detect settings" and i've turned off proxy support with consistent results.  I'm not sure what else do.  Any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Yea thats what I thought too, I uninstalled and reinstalled and it didn't help.  I also noticed that when logged in under the profile where desktop connector runs you cannot connect to anything over ssl.  Page Cannot Be Found is thrown for any https site.

I'm not sure how tech savvy you are but you can secure SSL test to your mail server to see if your computer can connect to it or see if its just your browser that is having issues.

Looking at your log file the desktop connector is using a local proxy you have installed on your machine thats configured in Internet Explorer browser. Did you set this proxy up manually? Do you have a proxy? Is your proxy configured correctly to handle SSL or any traffic on porn 443?

Check all of those settings and make sure its correctly set in your browser as well under Internet Options.

Good luck

I am getting it too.  Tried it on multiple computers.