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Been using OpenVPN on this Win 10 laptop for a couple of years and all of a sudden the client Connect app will just not start up. So I can't even try to establish an OpenVPN session or RD session. My iPhone OpenVPN Connect client app works fine and my Open VPN server is working fine. But I really need to use the laptop for this more than the phone. What is going on?? Did a Win 10 update maybe break the client Connect app? I have since deleted the client Connect app and reinstalled it, made no difference. The app just fails to start... doesn't throw any errors or anything.

Well, I ran the Windows program compatibility tool on the OpenVPN Connect app that wouldn't start. I let it pick settings and it used some for Vista as near as I can tell. But the program runs again and works normally except now I get a pop up to allow admin permission for the program to run. I did also try that before the fix and it didn't work. No idea why the program compatibility settings needed to be changed since OpenVPN Connect client had been running fine on Win 10 for years. So maybe a recent Win 10 update did break it and it may take some time for them to revamp the app. I dunno. Is no one else seeing this issue??

Hello raylo32,

A bit of a shot in the dark, but can you try closing the OpenVPN Connect app, undoing the program compatibility setting, clearing out the %temp% directory on this computer, rebooting, and trying again?

Kind regards,
Johan

I had similar symptoms as described by raylo32. I installed OpenVPN connect and it worked once. After rebooting, I could not get it to work again. I couldn't even get OpenVPN Connect to run. There was no tray icon either (even in the hidden area).

On the advice of the comment from openvpn_inc, I deleted the %TEMP% directory and restarted the laptop. After restarting, OpenVPN Connect launched like normal, and it appears to be working now. There's even a tray icon. I rebooted once just to be sure, and it still seems ok. Thanks for that tip.

This saved my day:

guys, clearing the %TEMP% folder worked. thx

Hi guys,
I have the same problem on a Hyper-v Windows 10 PRO machine..
after the reboot I see a OpenVpn Connect program listed in task manager with 0% cpu used.
If I kill it manually I can start the GUI.

Hi all,
I have faced similar issue this morning. OpenVPN Connect does not start, no icon in the tray. Clearing %temp% and reinstalling client did not help, even with the latest openvpn-connect-3.7.3.4351_signed version. Tried to rename %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\OpenVPN Connect folder, when running client app, new folder gets created, but no any file available there. In the log file no any new entry since the last session. It seems client app gets crashed immediatelly when started.
Also tried to remove OpenVPN Connect and install OpenVPN GUI, no success as well, msi log is available.
Any ideas how to make it running? Thanks in advance!

Hi all,
I have faced similar issue this morning. OpenVPN Connect does not start, no icon in the tray. Clearing %temp% and reinstalling client did not help, even with the latest openvpn-connect-3.7.3.4351_signed version. Tried to rename %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\OpenVPN Connect folder, when running client app, new folder gets created, but no any file available there. In the log file no any new entry since the last session. It seems client app gets crashed immediatelly when started.
Also tried to remove OpenVPN Connect and install OpenVPN GUI, no success as well, msi log is available.
Any ideas how to make it running? Thanks in advance!