VPNBook on Windows 7

MGBRoadstar

I need some help installing VPNBook on a Win 7 PC.

The VPNBook How-To http://www.vpnbook.com/howto/setup-openvpn-on-windows7 step one says to download the “OpenVPN Connect Client Download for Windows”, but the download link https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html doesn’t look like the screenshot.

There’s an installer for Windows Vista and later, which seemed to install ok. The VPNBook How-To tells me to launch the OpenVPN client. The only exe files I can find are openvpn.exe, openvpn-gui.exe and openvpnserv.exe but I can’t find a client.

I’m pretty sure I don’t want the openvpnserv. The openvpn.exe runs in a DOS box and disappears. The openvpn-gui.exe file runs (Task Manager tells me it is running) but the GUI isn’t very graphical as I can’t see anything. So there’s nowhere to load the profile/username/password in the client.

Are there instructions anywhere how to set this up?

myRC

You need to download a certificate and install it in the C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config dir.

BTW when you run the GUI, it should show up as a small TV type box in your lower right icon area on the bottom task bar.