Disable Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter Permanantly

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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.

This link was mentioned in another thread (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd759204.aspx). They say it worked. But I cannot figure out how to follow the steps. — Slava, Aug 05 '15 at 12:52

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '14 at 19:53

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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.

_{Source for commands}

This worked for me and removed the adaptor on my computer.

answered Jun 23 '14 at 19:53

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This works only temporarily. The Miniport Adapters reappear after some time (reboot?). – Slava Aug 05 '15 at 12:40
Shouldn't do - it never came back for me... @Alph.Dev :/ – ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Aug 05 '15 at 12:50
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I ran these commantds 3 times already. Every time it works. But when I experience wifi problems I visit Control panel > Network connections, and yep, there they are again. 2 Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapters. – Slava Aug 05 '15 at 12:55
If you can see the adapters in Device Manager, can you delete them? – ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Aug 05 '15 at 12:55
Deleting/Uninstalling these adapters in Device Manager works until reboot. – Slava Aug 05 '15 at 12:57
hmmm... sorry then @Alph.Dev I can't think of what could be the problem - it worked for me! Do you have any programs installed that are reinstalling/reenabling the adapter on reboot? How did you originally enable them? – ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Aug 05 '15 at 12:59
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It's worth mentioning that `netsh wlan show hostednetwork` will let you see if this feature is turned on in the first place. If it is, then the `Mode:` will be set to `Allowed`. – GuitarPicker May 03 '17 at 19:26
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@Alph.Dev, then you have some other software which re-enables it, just like `netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow` does. This is privileged operation to narrow suspects down – Free Consulting Jan 28 '20 at 21:03

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 03 '17 at 07:01

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

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 15 '16 at 14:58

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

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 17 '19 at 15:20

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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.

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answered May 17 '19 at 15:20

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score -1 · Answer 5 · edited May 17 '19 at 16:08

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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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answered May 17 '19 at 15:16

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