Audience
Users searching for a simple tool to easily create a wifi hotspot with their wireless network adapter
About HostedNetworkStarter
Using the Wifi hosted network feature of Windows operating system. With the wifi hotspot created by this tool, you can allow any device with wifi support to access the network and the Internet connection available in your computer. HostedNetworkStarter crashes when trying to start the hosted network. The crash occurs inside hnetcfg.dll while HostedNetworkStarter requests to disable previous ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) settings in order to set ICS for the hosted network. It's unclear whether this crash occurs because HostedNetworkStarter does something wrong or it's some kind of bug in ICS component of Windows 10. Some people reported that this crash started to appear after installing Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
Free
Free Version:
Free Version available.
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Company Information
NirSoft
www.nirsoft.net/utils/wifi_hotspot_starter.html
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Windows
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