How To Set Up A VPN In Windows 10: The Ultimate Guide

A virtual private network (VPN) is a set up to access different public networks across different countries. A VPN extends a private network across a public network, such as the Internet. If you are interested in knowing more about VPN and its working, head over to our in-depth article on What is VPN? And How it works?

Here are steps on to set up a VPN in Windows 10:

How to set up a VPN in Windows 10:

Before following this procedure, you need to log in to your Windows 10 with administrative privileges and then follow the below steps

• Open Settings of your Windows 10 computer to get started with setting up a VPN in Windows 10.

• Click on “Network and Internet” icon and open the relevant settings.

• On the left panel, click on VPN and VPN setup window will open.

• Click on “Add a VPN connection” and a new window will open up to set up the VPN in Windows 10.

• Fill up the following details under “Add a VPN connection” Window
  • Select Windows (built-in) under VPN provider
  • Give a connection name as per your choice
  • Enter server name or Address
  • Under the VPN type, select “Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)”
  • Under the “Type of sign-in info”, select one of the options of your choice
  • Enter Username and password, if necessary
  • Check “Remember my sign-in info” at the bottom to avoid logging in again and again in future
  • Finally, save
• Now you will see, the new added VPN connection under the VPN Windows

• Click on that newly added VPN connection and click on “Connect” and that will connect you to your server
• If you want to re-edit the information of your newly added VPN, click on Advanced options just beside “Connect”
• Advanced options will show you connection properties of the newly added VPN. Click on Edit to re-edit the VPN information.

You can also click on “Clear sign-in info”  just below the “Edit” option in the above picture to clear your password/ username or OTP for your VPN connection on Windows 10.

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I hope that you found our article “How to set up VPN in Windows 10” useful. If you know some other methods to set up a VPN in Windows 10, or some other trick, let us know in the comments below.