Hello,

I have a perfectly working VPN setup in Windows 7 however since I have got a Windows 8 computer and subsequently upgraded it to 8.1 when I connect to the VPN it assigns the connection as Public and I cannot view any of the network shares.

As I understand it, in Windows 8 you could go into the network section of Change PC Settings, right click over the VPN and enable sharing which would convert the public network type to private however there is no longer this option to enable sharing in 8.1

So I'm left with having to disable the public firewall and then connect to the VPN where it works perfectly but is a bit of a pain.

I'm hoping someone can help me to change the network type of the VPN connection from Public to Private, unfortunately the laptop runs Windows 8.1 Home Premium so I do not have access to gpedit.msc

Hope someone can help.

Regards,

Mike

• Edited by F1aw1ess Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:03 AM

Hi Mike,

Based on my knowledge, we can use the following method to change the network type of connection from Public to Private.

Set Network to be Private in Windows 8 and 8.1 in Registry

1.Press Win + R keys to open the Run dialog, type regedit, and press Enter.

2.In Registry Editor, navigate to the location below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles

3.Expand Profiles, click on each long GUID number subkey, and look at its PofileName string value in the right pane to see if it has the current network name (ex: Network) until found.

4.When you find the correct PofileName for your network name, double click/tap on the Category DWORD value in the same right pane to modify it.

5.Type in a new Data value number for the network location you want, and click/tap on OK.

Network location      Data value

Public                                0

Private                             1

Domain                            2

6.When finished, please reboot your computer.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Fucked up windows