You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. You will likely see the adapter when checking out Network Connections in Windows. So what is it and why is it there? It is a virtual adapter that allows Windows to split a network in two, either to act as a wireless bridge or WiFi hotspot.
These are useful if you need to extend a wireless connection or provide WiFi for other devices but does come with a performance overhead. For example, if you connect your laptop to your only Ethernet port, you can make your laptop a wireless hotspot for other devices to connect to in order to gain internet access. As a network card can only connect to a single network at a time, Microsoft introduced the Microsoft virtual WiFi miniport adapter to overcome that limitation.
It uses virtualization to allow the network card to appear as two separate ones. In the laptop example above, the physical card will connect to your Ethernet network to provide a primary connection. The Microsoft virtual WiFi miniport adapter will simulate another connection which would provide the hotspot or bridge for other devices to connect to. Leaving Microsoft virtual WiFi miniport adapter enabled can slow down your primary wireless connection. It likely comes with a small performance and battery overhead too but these will likely be very small.
Thanx in advance. Your email address will not be published. You will receive the following error message: This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. Aditya Farrad Aditya is a self-motivated information technology professional and has been a technology writer for the last 7 years. Jim Quinn November 23, at am. Microsoft Virtual Wi-Fi Miniport is a device driver that lets you wirelessly share your Internet connection to other devices.
It won't show up in Network Connections by default unless you allow it. I face similar problem of enabling Virtual WiFi Adapter while developing my software winhotspot.
As Andy Altmann suggested you can use netsh command or you can download my software it will automatically enable the virtual WiFi adapter. If you are using windows 7 you can create a adhoc network , By doing so Windows 7 will automatically install Virtual WiFi Drivers and enable the adapter.
Developer of Virtual WiFi Hotspot. Office Office Exchange Server. Once installed, you just name your network, type a password, and choose the Internet connection to share. Sounds similar to what we did above right? Connectify just provides a nice interface for doing the same thing. If not, you can always disable it by going to the Control Panel, Device Manager and disabling it under Network Controllers. We suggest you to download the latest drivers. Keep your Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter 3 driver upto date to maximize its performance, fixing any error related to driver.
It's released by Microsoft Type: Net Version: 6.
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