remove microsoft hosted network virtual adapter windows 10

WLAN Network Driver: Realtek PCI-E Wireless LAN Driver version 20.2016 Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Not sure how true this is but it would explain the sudden uninstallation of it. What I've read is that some of the new WLAN Adapters have stopped including the Network Hosted Virtual Adapter in their installation package.

Uninstalled LAN Adapter and reinstalled.

Restarted my machine after every change made to the network adapters.

Looked for older editions of the adapter, but they either installed but didn't have the Network Hosted Virtual Adapter, or weren't compatible with my machine.

Searched the Lenovo website for their default WLAN Adapter driver, downloaded and installed - but was the same one I had as my updated version.

Updated WLAN Adapter to latest version.

Tried rolling back WLAN Adapter to oldest version - 09/2015.

Disabled WLAN Adapter and Enabled to refresh drivers.

Looked for Microsoft Network Hosted Virtual Adapter Driver in Device Manager as a Hidden device - Not there.

Here are the following things I have tried: This appears to be a result of an update to my WLAN Adapter (Will list spec at end). The underlying issue appears to be that my Microsoft Network Hosted Virtual Adapter Driver is missing in Device Manager (when showing hidden drivers). Now I've looked everywhere online for a solution to my problem here.

The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation. Netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=NETWORKNAME key=PASSWORDīut to my nasty surprise, I was responded with: The other day I went to start up my VPN Virtual AP for my Chromecast and iPad to connect to via my Windows 10 Machine using the following commands (have done this several times before and it has worked fine):

Remove microsoft hosted network virtual adapter windows 10