Can’t start hostednetwork

This happen after you disable via Control Panel -> network adapters -> right click button on the virtual connection -> disable

To fix that go to Device Manager (Windows-key +xm on windows 8, Windows-key +x then m on windows 10), then open the network adapters tree , right click button on Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter and click on enable.

Try now with the command netsh wlan start hostednetwork with admin privileges. It should work.

Note: If you don’t see the network adapter with name ‘Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter’ try on menu -> view -> show hidden devices in the Device Manager window.

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