Thursday, December 9, 2010

Error 0x8004a029 when installing Shrewsoft VPN client on Windows 7

During install, I receive "Error 0x8004a029: Couldn't install
the network component".


Error 0x8004a029 means that the maximum number of filter devices for the system has been reached. Other similar software ( VPN clients, 3rd party firewalls, etc ) install filters. You can either attempt to remove other software that has installed a filter, or attempt to increase the following registry entry value to allow more filters to be installed.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\MaxNumFilters
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2 comments:

  1. Keith RichmondMay 7, 2012 at 11:31 AM

    Thanks for this. Just solved my issue trying to install Shrew VPN on a Windows 7 pro 64 bit machine. Increasde the value from 8 to 10 (decimal base) and retried the install. Worked flawlessly.

    Thanks again!

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  2. UnknownJanuary 13, 2016 at 12:17 PM

    I had the same problem - and I too increased the the MaxNumFilters. Did the trick - Thank You very much.

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