Microsoft Hosted Network Adapter missing after updating to Windows 10. Please help!

DominicCarillo
DominicCarillo Member Posts: 3 New User

I can no longer create a hotspot since I updated to windows 10. Microsoft Hosted Network Adapter doesn't appear on Device Manager so I can't fix it using the suggestions google gives. This is stressing me out! Smiley Indifferent

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  • philetus
    philetus ACE Posts: 4,759 Pathfinder
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    It's a driver issue. You can open a command prompt and run netsh wlan show drivers and see if it supports a hostednetwork. Update to the latest driver at Acer. If Windows 10 keeps installing the same bad driver, I recommend you roll back to 8.1

      

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  • philetus
    philetus ACE Posts: 4,759 Pathfinder
    Answer ✓

    It's a driver issue. You can open a command prompt and run netsh wlan show drivers and see if it supports a hostednetwork. Update to the latest driver at Acer. If Windows 10 keeps installing the same bad driver, I recommend you roll back to 8.1

      

  • DominicCarillo
    DominicCarillo Member Posts: 3 New User
    It says "No" when I did the cmd thing. What I did is, I installed the windows 8.1 driver and it works fine now. Thank you Smiley Happy
  • philetus
    philetus ACE Posts: 4,759 Pathfinder

    That's great. Take a look at Start8. http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

    To me, this completes 8.1.

  • DominicCarillo
    DominicCarillo Member Posts: 3 New User
    This works for Windows10 too? I'll check later, I'm currently on Mobile Smiley Happy
  • philetus
    philetus ACE Posts: 4,759 Pathfinder

    Yes. They have Start10.