Where is the WireGuard config file?

When you set up WireGuard as a VPN, it will create the config file for you, but where is it located?

If you are following the guide to setting up WireGuard and want to use your Windows 10 PC for all of your VPN needs, you will need to manually create the config file. This guide will show you how to do that.

WireGuard will create a config file called wg0.conf inside of your /.config/wireguard/ directory. That directory is usually found at C:Users .configwireguard.

Now, open that directory with the File Explorer and navigate to the wg0.conf file.

If you have a different username or password, your file name will be different. If you don't know what the wg0.conf file contains, let's take a look! The wg0.conf file is where you set up the keys that are used in WireGuard.

Wg0.conf file location and contents Let's take a look at the wg0. Here is a sample of what it may look like: # Sample configuration file generated by wg on Sun Nov 28 14:27:57 2026 # Generated by NetworkManager static udp-host-endpoint=5001. Udp-mtu=1472 udp-tunnel=false. Key-directory=/home/user/.config/wireguard persist-key=. Persist-tun=. Secret-key=0cfa7d83ebd8b8f7b8b4c9cc4b3ab8e2d3e2f6b23dcaa18f7dc5fa9c7b17f8e89da3d2d53900. Secret-key-path=/home/user/.config/wireguard/secrets/privkey.

How do I configure WireGuard in PureVPN?

What's the difference between a VPN Tunnel and a VAPN?

How does PureVPN protect my privacy? Is PureVPN working or are there issues? If PureVPN is not good for you, just click here to receive your money back! To learn more about the PureVPN service see our in-depth PureVPN review. What Is WireGuard? It's basically a VPN protocol that allows for more secure and faster VPN connections than what we've used in the past (I'm looking at you OpenVPN). It can be used with both traditional IP based networking like that of Wi-Fi and Ethernet networks. Or it can be routed via other protocols like TCP/UDP or even UDPLite.

For the record, the protocol's been around since 2026. And it can work both IPv4 and IPv6. You can read all about it in depth in this article on Gaurav Choudhary from OpenWireguard.org.

And you can read more about it in this article on VPN.news.

Note: This article focuses on the installation and setup of WireGuard and is for both novice and advanced users. So if you're new to VPNs, that's fine. I promise not to go all technical-jargon-filled on you in this article.

Why is PureVPN supporting WireGuard? To be completely honest, it's a bit of a risk. Because, if things don't work, there's not much that you can do.

But we think that WireGuard is very promising and is going to become very common over the next couple of years. That's why we're using it.

The benefits of WireGuard over the more traditional way of doing VPNs include: Lower latencies - You get lower latencies when using WireGuard than you will if you're using OpenVPN or IKEv2. This is partly because WireGuard doesn't use stateful authentication.