My gap in the void

I posted previously about the wonders of getting Cisco VPN client to work 'out of the box', there was initially trouble with Windows 7 and it's no different with Windows 8... The symptom is that when you try and connect it complains that it can't enable the adapter: "Reason 442: Failed to enable Virtual Adapter". The problem is that the name of the adapter in the registry has got some corruption and so the client software can't find the entry to enable. Open regedit and find  HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CVirtA In there you'll see  DisplayName which has some funky information on the front of it. It should just be  Cisco Systems VPN Adapter  so remove any junk from the front and you should be good to go. No restart of the system required for this one, or even the client for that matter, just try and reconnect and it should work.

I recently started using Windows 7 and so decided to push it to the limit and run all the software I was previously running under Vista. The only serious problem I had with incompatibility was a known issue with Daemon Tools in that it simply isn't compatible with Windows 7, so I used the free version of Virtual CloneDrive by ElaborateBytes instead. My next stumbling block was to get the Cisco VPN client working. Oddly enough I had no problems getting this to work on build 6956, but on moving to 7000 I kept getting a dreaded blue screen everytime I tried to start Windows. Luckily the system repair managed to get round this and take me back to the system point just before I'd installed the VPN client. After hunting round the web for a while I found a simple combination of things that seemed to result in a reliable way of getting the VPN client to install and work properly. The VPN client version is v5.0.04.0300. First I changed the properties of the Setup application so that it...