This may be a coincidence, but it has happened on two different PCs now, one running XP and the other 2000 Professional.

I don't use VPN to connect BOINC, just part time to access my company's intranet. (I'm a teleworker.) I had no problems until I upgraded BOINC (to 5.2.7 on one PC and 5.2.13 on the other). The problem which has developed on both PCs is as follows:

When VPN has connected, there is no longer a taskbar "bubble" telling me that it is now connected, and no connection icon appears in the taskbar. (I have it set to display one.) The only way I can access the connection is via the control panel, and this doesn't give me the option to disconnect, only to connect. As it's already connected, this doesn't do anything of course. So the only way I can disconnect from VPN is to log off. When I log back on, usually the VPN icon now appears in the taskbar, with an option to disconnect. As it's not connected, this doesn't do anything either, so I can no longer connect to VPN unless I reboot the PC.

Has anybody come across this problem and have a solution? Is anybody aware of an issue with BOINC and VPN? Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Failing that I may be forced to roll back to an earlier version of BOINC to see if the problem goes away.

I'm running BOINC as a service on both PCs, and I use a blank screen screensaver.

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nedsran-cdl,

I don't have the answer to your problem, as I have no experience with VPN. I can, however, steer you to what will most likely be a work-around. I'm sure that Task Manager has a listing on the Processes tab that controls your VPN, though I don't know which particular process. There is something called Process Explorer available (free, GoogleSearch for it) which will tell you what each process running is related to. I think that once you know which one works your VPN that you can exit the process and then restart it, allowing you to log on and connect again.

Here's hoping that someone will come along with a better solution.

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nedsran-cdl,

I don't have the answer to your problem, as I have no experience with VPN. I can, however, steer you to what will most likely be a work-around. I'm sure that Task Manager has a listing on the Processes tab that controls your VPN, though I don't know which particular process. There is something called Process Explorer available (free, GoogleSearch for it) which will tell you what each process running is related to. I think that once you know which one works your VPN that you can exit the process and then restart it, allowing you to log on and connect again.

Here's hoping that someone will come along with a better solution.

Many thanks for that suggestion. I do have Process Explorer on all of my PCs. I like a good hack!

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