how to see on computer or screen that VPN is up and running?

Ronald 1948

how to see if VPN is up and running. on screen or background

Scott

Hi @Ronald 1948

When you start the VPN on a Windows PC, the icon with a green check mark will be displayed in the System tray. You can also hover your mouse over your connections, and it will show the VPN 2nd connection.

I suppose you could also open the app and minimize it to the Taskbar, and open and close it from there.

I hope this helped :)

Scott

Andy Gillison

On startup on my PC Win 11, VPN does not start. Program file list just shows blank image under Bitdefender.

I uninstalled and downloaded VPN but installation does not activate.

Please assist

Alexandru_BD

Hello @Andy Gillison,

The Startup/Automatically Launch option only configures the VPN application to run at startup. It does not set it up so that it automatically connects to a VPN server. Basically, the respective setting launches the VPN application at Windows startup, but it does not actually establish the VPN connection. Practically, through this feature it is no longer necessary to double-click on the application icon to access it.
The logic behind this process is that the Internet traffic is not made immediately after starting the operating system, as such we assume that the VPN connects when the Internet connection is established.

The VPN will only reconnect automatically if you put the device in a Sleep or Hibernate state while the VPN is connected.

Alexandru_BD

installation does not activate. - What do you mean here? So you have uninstalled the VPN app, then download it again and tried to reinstall it and the process doesn't start?

Andy Gillison

Thanks Alexandru_BD

This is encouraging. However, there is still no green tick in the Bitdefender icon that suggests VPN is operational.

To be on the safe side, I am going to use brute force and uninstall and reinstall Bitdefender with the hope that VPN will connect and display as before.

Thanks everyone for your assistance. Now exiting.

Writerskey

Does bitdefender protect from the latest social security number breach?

Alexandru_BD

Hello @Writerskey,

Can you elaborate on this breach, please?
Kindly open a new thread as this one is related to the VPN app.

Thanks