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Step-By-Step: Changing a Public VPN to Private in Windows 10

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AnthonyBartolo
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Apr 16, 2019
Have a need to hide your VPN connections from public view? Here is a quick and easy way to change the visibility of your VPN connection in Windows 10 from public to private. It will require a registr...
Updated Apr 27, 2021
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Anthony Bartolo
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ConstMe
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Mar 21, 2023

Thanks, that works. But the text is misleading.

 

Changing network type from public to private does not hide VPN connection from public view.
It’s doing exactly the opposite.

This lifts firewalls restrictions exposing private resources (like shared drives) of the current computer to that network.