Sunday, February 3, 2013

Cisco VPN Client 5 on Windows 8


NOTE: Always create a backup before doing any type of Windows registry modifications!!!!
With the full public release of Windows 8 right around the corner it is inevitable that people will want to get in there and check it out. If you are working someplace that uses the Cisco VPN client you may run into a little issues getting it to work on Windows 8. Luckily the fix is REALLY simple. I’m sure they will add support in the future, but for the time being check out the issue and fix below.
The client will install and run just fine on the OS, at least it did for me. The problem comes when connecting to VPN resulting in the following error: