Enabling/Disabling Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport

Question

I disabled my Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport network adapter from Control Panel\\Network and Internet\\Network Connections.

Just right clicke

Answer 1

Try to add this hotfix: hotfixv4.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Windows%20Server2008%20R2%20SP1/sp2/Fix362872/7600/free/427221_intl_i386_zip.exe

Answer 2

I had the exact problem and I couldn't find the hosted network adapter in network connections or device manager. So what I did was to disable and enable the wifi adapter after this the hosted network adapter should be listed in the device manager, then you just enable the adapter from there.

Answer 3

Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport should start and bind automatically to the underlying function driver. Try disabling and reenabling the AR9285 driver.

Answer 4

In my case I had to uninstall and reinstall the wireless adapter driver to be able to execute the command

Answer 5

From accepted answer:

You go to your "device manager", find your "network adapters", then should find the virtual wifi adapter, then right click it and enable it

Maybe your device is hidden - first you should unhide it from the device manger, then re-enable the adapter from the device manger tools.

Answer 6

You go to your "device manager", find your "network adapters", then should find the virtual wifi adapter, then right click it and enable it. After that, you start your cmd with admin privileges, then try:

netsh wlan start hostednetwork