Introduction

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This guide describes the configuration of OpenVPN on Windows 8 using the installation package from the
OpenVPN community. The walk-through is based on openvpn-install-2.3.6-I601-x86_64.exe.

If you would like to use a more integrated client which handles administrator permissions properly and thus
adjusts the routing table correctly, have a look at the Viscosity guide.

Needed files
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OpenVPN installation packages
IPredator-Windows-Password.ovpn
IPredator.auth
To download IPredator-Windows-Password.ovpn and IPredator.auth right-click on them and select Save
as.

Installation
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To begin setting up OpenVPN, download and install the OpenVPN installation package.

Start the installation by right-clicking on the downloaded file and selecting Run as Administrator. Allow
the installer to make changes to your computer.
A welcome screen appears. Click Next.

The license agreement for OpenVPN gets displayed. Click I Agree.

Make sure that all components are selected for installation. Click Next.

If you do not want to install OpenVPN in its default destination folder, click Browse... to define another
folder. Otherwise, just click Install.

While the installation runs, you might be asked to install components (e.g. the VPN tunnel interface driver)
for which administrator permissions are needed. Allow the installation of these files. When the installation is
completed, click Next.

A last installation dialog is shown. Uncheck Show Readme and click Finish.

Configuration
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Download the OpenVPN configuration file IPredator-Windows-Password.ovpn for Windows to your

Downloads folder.

You need to have administrative permissions to configure OpenVPN on Windows. Either login as
Administrator or execute the following commands as Administrator by using the context menu.
Copy IPredator-Windows-Password.ovpn to the sub-folder config of your OpenVPN installation.

When asked to give access to the destination folder while copying the configuration file, click Continue to
grant administrative access.

Test run
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The OpenVPN installer should have placed the icon OpenVPN GUI on your desktop. OpenVPN GUI should
always be run as administrator, otherwise the routing table is not set up correctly under certain
circumstances. Right-click on it and select Run as administrator.

A new item got placed in the taskbar, showing two computers with red screens. The red screens symbolize
you are not connected. Right-click on the item and select Connect.

The OpenVPN connection window pops up. A dialog requesting a Username and a Password is shown.
Enter your IPredator credentials and click OK.

When the connection has been established successful, the OpenVPN connection window closes. Notice the
red screens on the OpenVPN taskbar item turned green.

Saving credentials
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If you want to save the credentials on your machine, you need to download another configuration file for this
to work.

When saving passwords for OpenVPN, keep in mind that they are saved in plain text and that there is no
hashing applied. This means that everybody having access to your machine, either physically or via the
network, is able to read your user name and your password. We strongly advise to use at least an
encrypted container to store your credentials. TrueCrypt is recommended for this purpose, although
Microsoft also includes BitLocker on Windows 8.
To continue, download IPredator-Windows-Password-File.ovpn and IPredator.auth to your Downloads
folder. Do not copy these two files to the config subfolder of your OpenVPN installation yet.

Open IPredator.auth from the Downloads folder with Notepad. There are two lines in IPredator.auth, your
user name and your password. Replace those placeholders with your credentials. The user name needs to be
placed in the first line, the password in the second one. Save your changes and close Notepad.

IPredator.auth needs to have proper line endings. Add an empty line after the PASSWORD line. To achieve
this, just hit Enter twice after typing in your password.

Now copy your version of IPredator-Windows-Password-File.ovpn and IPredator.auth to the config

subfolder of your OpenVPN installation like you did it before.

Right click on OpenVPN's task bar item. A context menu appears where you can choose between the two
installed configurations. Select IPredator-Windows-Password-File/Connect.

The OpenVPN connection window pops up again and shows the connection log. If you entered your
credentials correctly, you should now be connected without having been asked to enter your user name and
password.

Again, only save your credentials this way when you are also using at least an encrypted container to store
them in!

Disable services
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Now that your OpenVPN connection works, you need to disable certain services on the VPN interface. Move
your mouse to the lower right hot corner to display the Charms Bar. Select Settings.

Select Control Panel.

Click Network and Internet.

Open the Network and Sharing Center.

From the menu on the left side, select Change adapter settings.

The list of available Network Connections is shown. Right-click on the one with the device name TAP-Win32
Adapter V9 to open its context menu and select Properties.

On the Networking tab, uncheck all items but Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Close the properties
window by clicking OK.

Online privacy
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Check our Cool stuff page for other privacy enhancing services. We also provide the following
infrastructure:

Jabber
Proxies
DNS
Tor

Support
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If you experience any problem after using this guide, please check our Problem Guide and the FAQ first. An
overview of the OpenVPN settings detailing technical aspects a bit more in depth and some tweaks is
available here.

This guides configuration connects your client to our OpenVPN service via UDP. As outlined in the
OpenVPN settings, connecting via TCP and/or to different ports is also supported. TCP is needed if you have
to go through a HTTP proxy to reach our servers or if your provider rate-limits UDP connections on port
1194.
If your problem is still not solved please visit the online online chat or use the Help Wizard to contact the
support.

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