Ready? First, make sure you have already set up a connection to a VPN. And when I’m connected, I can do things just as if I were sitting in my campus office, like print to my building’s copier.) [Why do I want to connect to my college’s VPN? The VPN provides extra security when I’m connected to, say, my local coffee shop’s wifi – hackers monitoring that wifi wouldn’t be able to gain access to my computer without weaseling their way through my college’s IT security measures as well.
With a little effort, I now have a keyboard shortcut that will connect/disconnect me from my college’s VPN.
I guess the programmers wanted to make sure that I really, really, REALLY wanted to connect to this VPN. I can still do those same steps, it’s just that now when I click on “HighlineVPN” a new window opens where I can click on “HighlineVPN” again (?) which then gives me the option to connect by clicking the connect button(?!). I didn’t think it such a miraculous thing until that functionality disappeared in Windows 10. In Windows 7, I could click on my internet connection icon in the system tray, and then click on “HighlineVPN,” and I was connected. I generally like this upgrade, although connecting to my college’s VPN has gotten much harder. I made the jump from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
