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Right-clicking on the icon will pull up the context menu.

Note that this icon can be hidden when marked "inactive" by the OS, so check the expanding arrows to the left of the system tray if it's started but not shown. The screenshots below demonstrate use of the OpenVPN-GUI, step-by-step.Īfter initially launching the OpenVPN-GUI program, the GUI icon will be show in the tray, as shown in the image below. \config\ dir of the installation path (including subfolders.) If you do not place any config files here, the context menu in the GUI will not allow you to connect anywhere (since it has nowhere to connect to.) Once started in this fashion, further interaction via the tray icon will be run in the context of the elevated user.īy default, the GUI will present context entries to connect to any *.ovpn file under the. If the user lacks admin rights, it will be necessary to "Run As." and enter credentials for an administrative user. When starting the OpenVPN GUI, the standard Windows practice of right-clicking on the shortcut and selecting "Run As Administrator" will allow a UAC user to run it in administrative context. When this user does not have administrative rights (or has rights limited through UAC) it will most likely fail to correctly start the VPN as routes and addressing cannot be changed by unprivileged users. Please note the GUI will start the VPN process in the context of the running user. To do something useful with the GUI, you need to interact with it by right-clicking to bring up the context menu. When the GUI is launched, nothing will happen beyond placing the icon in the tray. The GUI lives in the system tray, so controlling one or more VPN processes is always done through the context menu of the GUI icon.

This wiki page describes how to use this GUI frontend. \bin\ subdirectory of the installation path, with shortcuts placed on the desktop and start menu unless unselected during program installation. The official OpenVPN release for Windows ships with a GUI frontend called simply "OpenVPN-GUI" and can be found in the.