I suspect there is shell api that might provide the enumeration that the control panel uses to display the 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?' To enable a network adapter with Control Panel on Windows 10, use these steps: Open Settings. 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 Windows 7 virtual adapter is supposed to be included with any approved Windows 7 wifi drivers. 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. If you have a connection labeled 'Wireless Network Connection' or 'Wi-Fi,' you have a wireless adapter installed. This will open the Network Connections window.

Press Win, type ncpa.cpl, and then press Enter. I have an application that directly controls the windows wifi interface card using the Native Wifi API ( ). If you're using a desktop, you may need to install a wireless card or use a wireless USB adapter. On Windows 10, open the Search feature and type in wireless. Windows 7 has a (neat?) new feature called a 'virtual wireless adapter'. How to Enable Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter Open CMD Run As administratorJust.

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