Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Checkpoint VPN Client Tray Icon Disappears...how to get back

One of the issues I sometimes have is that the Checkpoint VPN Client Tray Icon (the yellow key) sometimes disappears from my windows xp start bar. If I try to re-run checkpoint it says its already started. I just found out how to get it back without restarting my laptop - kill the SR_GUI.exe process. Things will automatically restart and the tray icon re-appears again.
BTW...I hate Checkpoint VPN...compared to Cisco VPN its an unstable horrific piece of software. I guess you get what you pay for.

5 comments:

maj said...

Thank goodness for your post - this thing was driving me nuts. On my system it's TrGUI.exe that needs to be killed; I was able to find it once you mentioned SR_Gui.exe. Thanks again for the post.

Unknown said...

I also have the same problem; I wish that they'd fix it.
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Unknown said...

I experience the same issue. But killing TrGui.exe doesnt help me. When I restart Chechpoint client it doesnt reappear in the tab.

Unknown said...

I had the same issue. Killing TrGUI.exe from TaskManager didnt work. But in the CheckPoint folder I found a script called AdminMode which restarted TrGUI with admin privs and that worked.

Unknown said...

killing the check point process on the task manager and restarting it again
it what help me to solve the issue
I started the process by search for check point vpn and try to open it