ANSWERED Start With Windows

[puff-m-d 31]

Hello,

 

I am having trouble getting AirVPN to start with Windows. I can right click the AirVPN icon in the system tray, click preferences, and check the start with Windows box. This setting stays unless I either disconnect and exit from AirVPN or do a reboot. Upon reboot, AirVPN does not start with Windows and when I check the status of that preference, it has been unchecked. How can I get AirVPN to remember that setting and actually start with Windows? Is there a registry key/value or such that I need to check/verify/add? If you need to know, I am on a Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center system. Thanks for the help...

 

Best regards,

puff

[Staff 9973]

Hello!

 

Please see this guide: https://airvpn.org/windows_autostart (it is linked at the bottom of the Windows instructions page).

 

However, you will need to enter your login and password anyway. If you need to connect your computer at the boot and before that any user logs in the system you need to run OpenVPN as a service.

 

Kind regards

[puff-m-d 31]

Hello,

 

Thanks for your help. That worked great. I guess the "start with windows" option in preferences does not do anything. I do have one more question. The instructions you gave me started the AirVpn GUI and logged me in. Is there a command line or something that I can use to have it automatically connect also?

 

Best regards,

puff

[puff-m-d 31]

Hello again,

 

Since my last post, I am now starting OpenVPN as a service utilizing a .ovpn file from the AirVPN config generator. No GUI loads but the OpenVPN service does start and connects me to AirVPN. Is there a way to have the GUI loaded also? Trying to load the GUI from the shortcut on the desktop does not work. Thanks for your patience...

 

Best regards,

puff

[puff-m-d 31]

Hello,

 

The best that I can find is the only control I have is start or stop via services.msc...

[OpenSourcerer 1435]

Hello,

 

The best that I can find is the only control I have is start or stop via services.msc...

 

If you don't find another solution you could write a simple Batch script and launch it if you need the GUI so you don't have to call the services manager for this. Use

net start [full service name]

net stop [full service name