I recently upgraded my laptop’s hardware with 4GB RAM and a 500GB HDD (for about £130 RAM £65 and HDD £65), in order to use the full 4GB RAM I needed to install Windows 7 x64, which installed nice a quickly via USB :) see my previous post on that one.
The reason for upgrading was primarily to provision enough resources to maintain a decent performing laptop whilst running 2 VM’s simultaneously 2GB of RAM just was not enough and I was running low in Disk space.
I installed the beta of Office 2010 and then installed the other applications that I used on a regular basis, MSCVMM, Tweetdeck, Google Pack, Windows Live, I then went to install the Cisco VPN client but this was a case of “Computer Says No” after doing some digging it turned out that the Cisco VPN Client is not supported on the x64 platform, Cisco only developed a 32 bit version. so I had everything else running on my laptop but the VPN Client (which would give me a real issue if I needed to connect when out of the office).
Any how after some further digging I came across an alternative: ShrewSoft VPN: http://www.shrew.net/download
Its not even a 3mb download relatively simple install and no reboot required.
after installation I ran it and looked in the file menu to see if there was an import option on the off chance for a cisco pcf file and there was, so I imported my pcf file hit connect, entered my VPN credentials and was connected.