Don’t have a wireless router at your home yet you want to create a W-Fi  hotspot and  share internet connection with other family members, your kids even with your neighbors? How to do that? As with other Windows previous versions , Windows 7 hides so many unexposed features many noobs like me are not aware of. One of the hidden features of Windows 7 is you can turn your computer running the latest Windows version into a small personal hotpot. With just a few clicks and easy steps you can make your computer a Wi-Fi hotspot and share the internet connection wirelessly with other Wi-Fi capable devices such as smartphones, the iPod, iPad etc.

To create a Wi-Fi hotspot with a Windows 7 computer  make sure your wireless network adapter supports  virtual Wi-Fi feature. Most recent network adapters have generally supported this feature, if you are not sure you can just give the following tricks a try and if it does not work then you need to replace your network adapter with a virtual Wi-Fi ready adapter or you can first try to find your network adapter’s  latest driver update that supports the virtual Wi-Fi.

Okay then, how to turn your Windows 7 into a personal hotspot? It’s a piece of cake and here are no additional applications required to make your Windows 7 computer a Wi-Fi hotspot as you just need to take the following easy steps:

Make sure your computer that you want to turn into Wi-Fi hotspot is connected to the main internet connection (Wireless Modem/Cable/DSL)

  • Open the Command Prompt: Go to Start—-All Program—Accessories,  right click on Command Prompt and left click “Run as Administrator” as shown in the bellow picture.

 

 

Type the following line in the Command Prompt :

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=yourhotspotname key=yourhotspotpassword

Note: Change the hotspot name and the ssid (password) with your own name and password (highlighted in red color)

or alternatively if you don’t want to type in the command line manually  you can create a bat file by copying and pasting it and save it with whatever name you like, don’t forget do add the .bat behind the file name, for example you want to create wifi.bat, you need to copy and paste the above command line and then hit “Save As” and rename it to wifi.bat. Don’t forget to put the newly-created file in the following location : C:\users\your computer user. Now type wifi.bat on the Command Prompt until you’re prompted with the following message:

 

 

 

Next, type the following command line bellow it, or you can create a bat file and call it the way you do with the above wifi.bat

netsh wlan start hostednetwork

Your virtual Wi-Fi hotspot has now been activated.

The last step is enable internet connection sharing properties. Go to Network and Sharing Center, click “Change Adapter Settings, Right Click on Wireless Network Connection that has the grey “Microsoft Virtual Miniport Adapter” bellow it, Click on Properties, Click the Sharing tab and check the two checkboxes bellow “Internet Connection Sharing”. Hit OK

 

 

Done, you have just created a personal  WI-Fi  hotspot and you can start connect multiple  Wi-Fi-enabled devices to it.

Note: when you turn off  or reboot the computer the virtual hotspot will be deactivated and you need you repeat the above steps.

 

 

 

 

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