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  • Quickly connect to a VPN on Windows 10 (revisited)

    Quickly connect to a VPN on Windows 10 (revisited)

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    Update (June ’17): it has taken more than 1,5 years since I posted this, but the Windows 10 “Creators Update” finally contains a Connect button right in the Network Connections flyout… 🙂 Earlier I wrote about a trick to make Windows 10 connect to a VPN with a single action (double-click) instead of three or…

  • Making TrueCrypt system favorite volumes stick in Windows 10

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    In the last paragraph of Upgrading a TrueCrypt-protected system to Windows 10 I wrote simply that you should re-add your secondary volumes to the system favorite volumes to have them mounted automatically. That turned out to be a bit too simple. Despite adding my data volume to system favorites, upon (re)boot the volume would sometimes…

  • Quickly connect to a VPN on Windows 10

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    All-in-all I am very happy with my upgrade from Windows 7 to 10. The procedure was smooth and almost (more on that later) everything still worked like a charm, out-of-the-box, despite having lots of not-so-obvious software on the machine. (Comes with the job as a developer, I guess.) However, one minor thing very soon annoyed…

  • Upgrading a TrueCrypt-protected system to Windows 10

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    I have protected my (Windows 7) development computer’s system volume with Truecrypt and pre-boot authentication. To upgrade a system like this to Windows 10 when it is offered to you, is almost as easy as any other system, but you need to plan ahead! Here’s a really easy how-to.