Sunday, 15 July 2012

Windows 8 - Cisco VPN Client - Failed to enable virtual adapter

So i installed Windows 8 release preview on my desktop a few days ago and so far i've been quite impressed with it.

One problem that i've come across so far is that after upgrading, Cisco vpn client stopped working with a "Failed to enable Virtual Adapter" error when i tried to connect to any vpn.












This is massively annoying for me as i use Cisco vpn client to connect to the network at work.

Fortunately after some frantic googling i managed to find a workaround.

Fire up the registry editor and navigate to the following path.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CVirtA

Modify the DisplayName key












For 64bit Windows, edit the key so that it reads "Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 64-bit Windows", or for x86 "Cisco Systems VPN Adapter"












Now open the vpn client and try connecting again. It should work now.

Hopefully this post will save someone else a bit of time.
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11 comments:

  1. Lucas Machado12 October 2012 at 16:33

    unbelievable. excelent it works

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  2. Unknown28 October 2012 at 11:32

    Brilliant thats a life saver, thanks

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  3. Sunil kumar C7 November 2012 at 22:09

    Worked :(

    Thanks

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  4. Unknown28 November 2012 at 14:45

    Thanks; just installed Windows 8 and needed to get the VPN client working. You rock!

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  5. Harpinder30 November 2012 at 15:01

    Worked

    Thank You

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  6. Unknown17 January 2013 at 07:20

    It worked thanks a lot

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