[vpn-help] Windows 8

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Thu Jun 13 19:39:56 CDT 2013


On 6/13/2013 10:29 AM, Don Woeltje wrote:
> We have been unable to get the Shrew Soft VPN client to work on Windows
> 8. After installation, when starting up the VPN client and attempting to
> establish a VPN connection, the client says “adapter initialization failed.”
>
> Any ideas what the problem is? We don’t have this problem on Windows 7
> or XP.
>

If you open the Device Manager, navigate to the Network Adapters list 
and then enable "Show Hidden Devices" in the View drop-down menu, do you 
see a Shrew Soft Virtual Adapter listed?

Thanks,

-Matthew



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