Disable Microsoft Virtual Wifi Miniport Adapter Permanantly
Is There a Simple and Permanent Way to Disable the Microsoft Virtual Wifi Miniport Adapter Permanently. I Believe This Device May Be the Source of Some Wifi...
Is there a simple and permanent way to disable the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter permanently.
I believe this device may be the source of some wifi problems my users have been having.
5 Answers
AFAIK, the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter is a virtual adaptor for sharing your internet connection (ie. making a wifi hotspot, or 'hosted network').
To disable this, open an elevated command prompt (cmd as admin) and type in the following commands, in order:
netsh wlan stop hostednetwork This stops the hosted network
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=disallow This disables the hotspot.
This worked for me and removed the adaptor on my computer.
This virtual adapter was installed by my Intel Wireless driver software. I was unable to disconnect my main Network Interface Card driver from this virtual adapter software. So I just disabled the virtual adapter from the network connections window.
Right-click->disable
To permanent deletion of the hosted network adapter (Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter) just delete in windows registers this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Wlansvc\Parameters\HostedNetworkSettings\HostedNetworkSettings
look up device manager> view (on the top bar)> view hidden devices> network adapters(in the main area)> find microsoft virtual adapter> right click disable.
nope u need to look up device manager>view hidden devices(at the top)> on the main screen under network adapter find the microsoft virtual adapters > right click disable
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