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Apparently there's something called a Commit button you have to click after making changes.   Thanks ... View more

Also, it appears the root cause of the Startup overriding issue is due to the way PaloAlto adds the "shortcut" to the menu. Apparently the shortcut to GlobalProtect is really a shortcut to some exe wrapped msi installer.    This appears to run an msi installer once I delete the auto-run entry and then re-open the shortcut.  If the auto-run entry for PANPga.exe exists, the shortcut will open it instead of running an installer.   That is very odd and I wonder why it was designed(?) this way.  Seems the work-around is to create a shortcut directly to PANgpa for the user.  ... View more

Yeah it's this window that pops up. As you can see there's no place to close it, can't move it or anything.  It's a bit obnoxious.  That's good to know about Cisco -- but two wrong's don't make a right.    ... View more

Because if a user needs to VPN they should just be able to open the program from start or desktop when they wish to. But instead, there's an annoying window that pops up from the system tray hiding the bottom-right side of my screen, and has h no option to close. That is abnormal as I compare to all the other system tray programs I have (currently running and past ones I've had).  ... View more

I renamed the REG_Binary "FailureActions" to "FailureActions_old" at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PanGPS.  Thereafter the process is not restarted every 60 secods by services.exe any longer  So That key is telling the service to restart, even though under PanGPS service's Recovery tab options I have it set to "Take no action" for all 3 failure options, AND I had the service disabled as well.  ... View more

When I terminate both PanGPS and PanGPA, this is the process that goes on before they both start back up. I also have the Service disabled this entire transaction.   I found the " HKLM\SOFTWARE\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS\RestartPanGPA" one particularly interesting.    Time of Day Process Name PID Operation Path Result Detail 25:33.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 QueryDirectory C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS Filter: PanGPS.log, 1: PanGPS.log 25:33.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 CreateFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS Desired Access: Generic Write, Read Attributes, Disposition: OpenIf, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Attributes: N, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: 0, OpenResult: Opened 25:33.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 QueryStandardInformationFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS AllocationSize: 434,176, EndOfFile: 430,591, NumberOfLinks: 1, DeletePending: False, Directory: False 25:33.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 QueryStandardInformationFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS AllocationSize: 434,176, EndOfFile: 430,591, NumberOfLinks: 1, DeletePending: False, Directory: False 25:33.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 WriteFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS Offset: 430,591, Length: 435, Priority: Normal 25:33.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 QueryBasicInformationFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS CreationTime: 10/25/2018 8:12:34 AM, LastAccessTime: 10/25/2018 8:12:34 AM, LastWriteTime: 10/25/2018 11:22:10 AM, ChangeTime: 10/25/2018 11:22:10 AM, FileAttributes: A 25:33.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 ReadFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 64 25:33.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 ReadFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 7 25:33.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 CloseFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS   25:37.1 PanGPS.exe 15796 RegOpenKey HKLM\Software\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS SUCCESS Desired Access: Read 25:37.1 PanGPS.exe 15796 RegQueryValue HKLM\SOFTWARE\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS\RestartPanGPA NAME NOT FOUND Length: 16 25:37.1 PanGPS.exe 15796 RegCloseKey HKLM\SOFTWARE\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS SUCCESS   25:37.3 PanGPA.exe 8516 RegSetValue HKCU\Software\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanMSAgent\PanGPS SUCCESS Type: REG_DWORD, Length: 4, Data: 5 25:37.3 PanGPA.exe 8516 RegQueryValue HKCU\Software\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanMSAgent\PanGPS SUCCESS Type: REG_DWORD, Length: 4, Data: 5 25:38.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 QueryDirectory C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS Filter: PanGPS.log, 1: PanGPS.log 25:38.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 CreateFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS Desired Access: Generic Write, Read Attributes, Disposition: OpenIf, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Attributes: N, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: 0, OpenResult: Opened 25:38.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 QueryStandardInformationFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS AllocationSize: 434,176, EndOfFile: 431,026, NumberOfLinks: 1, DeletePending: False, Directory: False 25:38.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 QueryStandardInformationFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS AllocationSize: 434,176, EndOfFile: 431,026, NumberOfLinks: 1, DeletePending: False, Directory: False 25:38.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 WriteFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS Offset: 431,026, Length: 862, Priority: Normal 25:38.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 QueryBasicInformationFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS CreationTime: 10/25/2018 8:12:34 AM, LastAccessTime: 10/25/2018 8:12:34 AM, LastWriteTime: 10/25/2018 11:25:33 AM, ChangeTime: 10/25/2018 11:25:33 AM, FileAttributes: A 25:38.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 ReadFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 64 25:38.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 ReadFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 7 25:38.0 PanGPS.exe 15796 CloseFile C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPS.log SUCCESS   ... View more

It's 4.1.2 version.   And I ran Process Monitor and watched the service keep launching the executable.   Time of Day Process Name PID Operation Path 32:57.2 PanGPS.exe 5748 Process Create C:\Program Files\Palo Alto Networks\GlobalProtect\PanGPA.exe   Then if I run "taskkill /im PanGPA.exe /f" a second later PanGPS.exe runs the PanGPA.exe again.    Here is a video of this happening: https://youtu.be/9fkbyZZug_k         ... View more