Before I had posted a small blog entry on how it was basically impossible to get the Cisco VPN software working on a Windows Vista machine. It turned out to be one of the most hit blog entries I had – mainly due to the amount of help that was being provided in the comments. In the comments, many folks tried to help others with a solution. Though, one of the last entries I read recently was about a gentleman that pointed out that if you get all the Vista updates, that it seemed to just work.
There are many reasons I didn’t leave the safety of Windows XP and move to Vista over the time since it has come out. One of the biggest reasons was due to the fact that I just simply couldn’t get the Cisco VPN software working on Vista. Though, I have to say, I am now on Windows 7 on my main machine (32-bit) and you can get the Cisco VPN software running quite easily now. I have tested it out on two machines now and it works perfectly.
I myself used version 5.0.04.0300. Probably not one of the latest ones – but this one works and was one that was mentioned to be one of the more stable versions. I brought the setup.exe file for this to my local machine, right-clicked on the file and select ‘Run as Administrator’.
On one machine it took quite a number of minutes to install, but on my main desktop – it only took around 30 seconds. In both cases, the install went perfectly. I know that I passed my Cisco VPN problems into the Windows 7 team early on and I was communicating back and forth with them on this issue, so it would be nice to think I did my little part for Windows 7 :) …. but in any case, I’m so glad this now works. Goodbye Windows XP!
Print | posted on Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:35 PM