I do know what this virutal adapter does and that it could be a feature of the adapter or driver, but its weird to see it just randomly appear in the network adapter settings area as this was never there until recently. And iv had this same wireless network driver ever since windows 7 RTM'd without the virutal adapter ever being present. But looks as if disabling it is the only way dealing with this issue for the time being!
I've got this Virtual Wifi one adapter either and it works well!
"Everybody wants to be a Wifi Hotspot" says the song...!
Here:
How to: Create Wireless Hosted Networks in Windows 7 - www.wi-fiplanet.com
and here:
About the Wireless Hosted Network (Windows)
Old thread I know, but this just happened to me, and it was "Connectify" that was creating the Virtual WiFi Miniport
i had a bad experience about this Microsoft Virtual Wifi miniport adapter..,
everytime it appears i can hardly connect to wifi networks..i keep doing system restore after it appears in my system coz i cant really remove it..it installs automatically..i got it from several program installs
- avg update/upgrade
- windows update
- atheros driver update
-etc..grrrr..how can i get rid of this thing!
Hi,
I found this post in looking for the answer, and I know its old but I thought I would post how to disable this feature.
To disable this function and restore your wifi
open cmd with admin privlages and type this in
netsh wlan stop hostednetwork
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=disallow
this will stop and remove the wifi miniport adapter!!!
Last edited by Phukit; 12 Apr 2012 at 09:36.
this the way to disable Microsoft Virtual Wifi Miniport Adapter
in cmd as admin "netsh wlan stop hostednetwork" no quotes.
then stop the service by typing "netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=disallow" also no quotes
just did this after reading other forums and it works
:)
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