Cisco VPN client fix

Fri, 07/04/2008 - 1:50pm

Today is Independence Day, so a day off. In the evening we'll go and see fireworks, but during the day I did some Ruby programming. I really enjoy this language!

To connect to our corporate network I use a Cisco VPN client and I ran into a small but annoying issue. The window of the VPN client wouldn't "Restore" anymore, I could only have it open Maximized or Minimized.

I did a scan on the registry but ultimately I found the settings that I needed in vpnclient.ini. The offending items:

WindowWidth=655
WindowHeight=96
WindowX=4294935296
WindowY=4294935296

I stopped the VPN client and replaced this with more reasonable values that I found here:

WindowWidth=578
WindowHeight=367
WindowX=324
WindowY=112

That solved it completely.

Comments

Re: Cisco VPN client fix

Permalink Submitted by Arjan on Fri, 07/04/2008 - 5:01pm

Or: right-click the button in the taskbar and select something like "Move". Next, hit a cursor key once. This make Windows realise that somehow the window is off-screen, and will move it into sight right away, to help you to position it using your keyboard.

If you select "Move" and then hit a cursor key, Windows resets the size of the window to a default and allows you to move it.

Nice trick.

Re: Cisco VPN client fix

Permalink Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 5:47am

Thank you very much for this fix. It's been a lifesaver for me today.

Guus Bosman

software engineering director

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