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Ive installed/upgraded OpenVPN 1.6.0 on XP SP2 and I can find the TAP-Win32 adapter icon in the network connnections panel. Whats the deal?

April 26, 2017adapter Icon installed Network openvpn SP2 tap-win32 upgraded XP

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Ive installed/upgraded OpenVPN 1.6.0 on XP SP2 and I can find the TAP-Win32 adapter icon in the network connnections panel. Whats the deal?

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On Windows XP SP2, the TAP-Win32 adapter icon is missing from the network connections control panel. A workaround is available in OpenVPN 2.0. This issue occurs because of a bug in XP SP2 which causes device drivers having HWIDs of 3 characters to fail to export network adapter icons to the network connections panel. The workaround was to change the HWID of TAP-Win32 adapters from “TAP” to “TAP0801”.