{"id":485,"date":"2025-01-02T13:59:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T06:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2025-10-05T13:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:02:56","slug":"wireguard-windows-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/02\/wireguard-windows-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireguard Windows Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Modern state-of-the-art VPN designed to be simplier and faster that IPsec and openVPN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/download.wireguard.com\/windows-client\"><code>Download latest Windows Installer<\/code><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Silent Install<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Wireguard may be installed silently via <code>msiexec<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Install wireguard and remove <a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/1026496\/automatic-services-doesnt-start-automatically-after-windows-restart\">default auto-start GUI<\/a> (powershell as admin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre id=\"codecell0\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Start-Process msiexec.exe -ArgumentList '\/q', '\/I', 'wireguard-amd64-0.1.0.msi' -Wait -NoNewWindow -PassThru | Out-Null\nStart-Process 'C:\\Program Files\\WireGuard\\wireguard.exe' -ArgumentList '\/uninstallmanagerservice' -Wait -NoNewWindow -PassThru | Out-Null\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Add Pre-configured Tunnel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-configured tunnels may be added as a separate service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Install <code>my-tunnel.conf<\/code> as a startup tunnel (powershell as admin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre id=\"codecell1\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Start-Process 'C:\\Program Files\\WireGuard\\wireguard.exe' -ArgumentList '\/installtunnelservice', 'my-tunnel.conf' -Wait -NoNewWindow -PassThru | Out-Null\nStart-Process sc.exe -ArgumentList 'config', 'WireGuardTunnel$my-tunnel', 'start= delayed-auto' -Wait -NoNewWindow -PassThru | Out-Null\nStart-Service -Name WireGuardTunnel$my-tunnel -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/r-pufky.github.io\/docs\/services\/wireguard\/windows-setup.html\">https:\/\/r-pufky.github.io\/docs\/services\/wireguard\/windows-setup.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern state-of-the-art VPN designed to be simplier and faster that IPsec and openVPN. Download latest Windows Installer. Silent Install Wireguard may be installed silently via msiexec. Install wireguard and remove default auto-start GUI (powershell as admin). Start-Process msiexec.exe -ArgumentList &#8216;\/q&#8217;, &#8216;\/I&#8217;, &#8216;wireguard-amd64-0.1.0.msi&#8217; -Wait -NoNewWindow -PassThru | Out-Null Start-Process &#8216;C:\\Program Files\\WireGuard\\wireguard.exe&#8217; -ArgumentList &#8216;\/uninstallmanagerservice&#8217; -Wait -NoNewWindow -PassThru &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/02\/wireguard-windows-setup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wireguard Windows Setup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}