An Article that will explain how to use virtual wifi (hotspot) feature in windows 7 and that too without a messy setup of software what you need is just one or two commands to activate it.
Taking in mind that reader has appropriate wifi adapters.
Note: Remember the most important your laptop must be already connected to internet LAN or Wireless access point using which it will give access to other devices on the named hotspot made as explained below
Step1: Click start and type cmd and right click on cmd program listed their and select Run as administrator .
Step 2: CMD will be there infront of you waiting for the command type the below shown command
netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=MyNet key=MyPassword
Here ssid is any identification id through which hotspot will be recognized and password is any password required for authenticating the hotspot.
Here ssid=testc password=12345678
a) Open network and sharing center from the bottom right where n/w connections are displayed
b) Click change adapter settings on the left side as shown
Step 3 : You will be shown virtual hotspot here wireless network connection 2 as shown below.Remeber thats not activated yet so next step is to activate it.
Step 4 : Activate the hotspot connection made using below command in cmd as used earlier.
netsh wlan start hostednetwork
Virtual hotspot is activated as shown below
Step 4: You must select which connection to share on hotspot which may be a lan or wireless connection your laptop is connected to.As above move to change adapter settings in network sharing center and move to properties of working adapter here YelcursorA.Go to sharing tab and select hotspot adapter to which to share and check the allow sharing first option as shown
Step 5: Hotspot is activated know as shown named testc here which can be accesed through wifi adapters in phones, laptops etc by just authenticating.
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