{"id":253,"date":"2015-06-20T02:48:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&p=253"},"modified":"2022-11-14T20:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:05:42","slug":"change-vpn-from-public-to-private-in-windows-8-and-8-1","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/change-vpn-from-public-to-private-in-windows-8-and-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Change VPN from Public to Private in Windows 8 and 8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve connected to a VPN on your Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 computer and the network connection\u00a0will come up as Public by default. \u00a0For most people this isn’t a major concern but you may require to change the VPN connection to Private if you have specific firewall rules which are restricting access or causing problems.<\/p>\n

Here’s how to change a Windows VPN from Public to Private<\/p>\n

Step 1. Open the Windows Registry Editor<\/h2>\n

Click on Start and then type in regedit<\/p>\n

Step 2. \u00a0Navigate to the following registry key<\/h2>\n

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\NetworkList\\Profiles<\/p>\n

Step 3. Find the correct GUID subkey<\/h2>\n

Expand Profiles, click on each of the long GUID number subkeys whilst looking at it’s ProfileName string value in the right pane to see if it has the current network name (eg: My VPN Name) until you’ve found it. \u00a0In the example below the ProfileName is Network 3.<\/p>\n

\"Registry<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Step 4. Find the ProfileName<\/h2>\n

When you find the correct ProfileName for your network name, double click\/tap on the Category DWORD value in the same right pane to modify it.<\/p>\n

\"Change<\/a><\/p>\n

Step 5. Change the Network Location<\/h2>\n

Type in a new Data value number for the network location you want, and click on OK.<\/p>\n

Here are the Network location Data values<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public 0<\/p>\n

Private 1<\/p>\n

Domain 2<\/p>\n

Step 6.\u00a0Restart the computer<\/h2>\n
<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve connected to a VPN on your Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 computer and the network connection\u00a0will come up as Public by default. \u00a0For most people this isn’t a major concern but you may require to change the VPN connection to Private if you have specific firewall rules which are restricting access or causing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[36],"article-tag":[230,228,229,227],"class_list":["post-253","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-8","article-tag-cant-change-vpn-to-private","article-tag-vpn-change-to-private","article-tag-vpn-change-to-public-network","article-tag-vpn-connection-seen-as-public-network"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":4,"sum_votes":16},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}