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Posted: **Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:03 pm**

I open a connection via the Windows 7 task scheduler when I log on as:

C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\bin\openvpn-gui-1.0.3.exe --connect wizangzing.ovpn

This works great unless I mis-type my password. When that happens the openvpn gui window is dismissed, andthere is no openvpn icon in the systray to use for connecting. If I try starting the gui again, it tells me it is already running. I end up killing the process from the windows task manager and relaunching the gui.

Is there a way to force the systray icon to appear or another way to connect
when in this state?

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$ cat wizangzing.ovpn|grep -vE '^#|^;|^$'
client
dev tun
proto udp
remote vpn.xxxxx.com 1194
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca ca.crt
cert wizangzing.crt
key wizangzing.key
ns-cert-type server
comp-lzo
verb 3

Thanks.

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:10 pm**

I ran into the same issue, and resolved it with a batch file:

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@ECHO OFF

::restart openvpn-gui.exe to cause explorer to re-register the openvpn-gui.exe system tray icon.


::Stops openvpn-gui.exe
taskkill /IM openvpn-gui.exe

::Starts openvpn-gui.exe
cd C:\"Program Files"\openvpn\bin
start openvpn-gui.exe

You may need to adjust the path statements.

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