Your main computer that is connected to a. It is a virtual internet connection for other nearby devices of yours. I suspect there is shell api that might provide the enumeration that the control panel uses to display the virtual adapter. What is microsoft wifi direct virtual adapter. Note that the documentation for WlanEnumInterfaces says:
My main question is 'How to I detect the presence of a windows virtual wifi adapter?'
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The drivers that out there now seem to be pretty buggy, and I've found that unless I manually disable the virtual wifi adapter the real adapter will not reliably connect to a wireless access point when commanded by the WLAN api. The Wi-Fi adapter will be reinstalled on your Windows automatically. Select the Scan for hardware changes option. The following section discusses the features that audio miniport drivers. Open the device manager again and click on the Actions tab from the top menu. The problem of No Sound on Netflix in Windows 10 might be related to the device. The Windows 7 virtual adapter is supposed to be included with any approved Windows 7 wifi drivers. Click on the arrow beside the Network adapters and right-click on Microsoft Virtual Wi-Fi Miniport Adapter.
Please take as a given for this question that I need to directly control the wifi adapter using this documented api and can't just leave it up to OS and user. I have an application that directly controls the windows wifi interface card using the Native Wifi API ( ). Click on View tab on the menu bar with the same window and select Show Hidden devices. Windows 7 has a (neat?) new feature called a 'virtual wireless adapter'. Press Windows+X keys and select Device Manager.