<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>I use the Shrew Soft VPN client on my laptop at home to connect to the network at the organization I currently work for and run Windows 8 apps through it without the least little bit of problem.<br><br>I will admit though that I hate the Windows 8 "Metro" user interface and the Windows 8.1 update of Metro isn't any better as far as I'm concerned. So what I did was to (for all practical purposes) replace the UI with another one. If you are having issues with the Metro interface, try www.classicshell.net. You can turn your user interface into an interface that is the same as that which came on Windows
XP.<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Bernd Pelzer <bernd-p@t-online.de><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "alexis.lagoutte@gmail.com" <alexis.lagoutte@gmail.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "vpn-help@lists.shrew.net" <vpn-help@lists.shrew.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 23, 2014 5:01 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [vpn-help] W 8.1: VPN does not work with W8 Apps<br> </font> </div> <div
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<div dir="ltr" style="font-family:'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif';font-size:12pt;"><div>Hi Alexis,</div><div><br></div><div>I had a look to the links posted. These threads are more than one year old and related to W 8.0. The descritpion of mal function is similar to my problems.</div><div><br></div><div>The link to KB article of Microsoft is just available in awful German for me. Do you know whether these issues are solved with W 8.1? <br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Bernd<br></div><div><br></div></div><div style="padding-top:5px;border-top-color:rgb(229, 229, 229);border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;"><div><font style="line-height:15pt;letter-spacing:0.02em;font-family:"Calibri", "Segoe UI", "Meiryo", "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic",
"sans-serif";font-size:12pt;"><b>Von:</b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:alexis.lagoutte@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:alexis.lagoutte@gmail.com">Alexis La Goutte</a><br><b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 21. März 2014 14:52<br><b>An:</b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bernd-p@t-online.de" target="_blank" href="mailto:bernd-p@t-online.de">Bernd Pelzer</a><br><b>Cc:</b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:vpn-help@lists.shrew.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:vpn-help@lists.shrew.net">vpn-help@lists.shrew.net</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div dir=""><div id="yiv6170843639readingPaneBodyContent">On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Bernd Pelzer <bernd-p@t-online.de> wrote:<br>> Hello,<br>><br>> I have installed the VPN Client on my W8.1 tablet with Intel Atom Z2760 to<br>> connect to my Fritz!Box. Connection to a node in my home network works fine<br>> with
desktop apps (e.g. Internet Explorer IE 11 for desktop)<br>><br>> However using W8 apps modern UI (e.g. Internet Explorer IE11 for modern UI)<br>> connection to a node in my home network fails although the VPN connection is<br>> still alive.<br>><br>> Any suggestion to solve this issue?<br>><br>Hi Bernd,<br><br>I known there is some issue with VPN client and Modern UI like<br>http://superuser.com/questions/533761/windows-8-style-apps-dont-work-over-vpn-connections<br>or<br>http://packetpushers.net/cisco-vpn-breakage/<br><br>Regards,<br><br>> Best regards,<br>> Bernd<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> vpn-help mailing list<br>> vpn-help@lists.shrew.net<br>> https://lists.shrew.net/mailman/listinfo/vpn-help<br>><br></div></div></div>
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