Create a wireless hosted (virtual) network / Wifi hotspot in your laptop.

Create a wireless hosted (virtual) network / Wifi hotspot in your laptop. 

A new feature in Windows 7 and 10 lets you create a Wireless Hosted Network, sounds amazing! indeed.

I will guide you through each and every steps required to do it.
Let's start.

 Step 1:
 

First let us go through the background of creating a hosted network.

First most important thing is to check weather your laptop support hosted network or not??

For that go to start search for command prompt (right click on it select run as an administrator).

To check availability of hosted network type command netsh wlan show drivers press enter, this command will open up all the available drivers in your laptop. 

In this list of available driver you need to search for sentence Hosted network supported if the answer is Yes you are good to go, if the answer is No stop here only no need to go further you cannot have a virtual Hotspot in your laptop.

If hosted network is supported go ahead.

 Step 2:

Now you need to create hosted network (simply wifi Hotspot).

Type command:

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=wifi key=12345678

Press enter.

You can set whatever ssid and key you want. Point to note is your key must be between 8 to 63 characters.

If everything is good you will get success message.

 Step 3:

Before you start the Wireless Hosted Network, you probably want to configure Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) so users connecting to the Wireless Hosted Network will give Internet access:  

1. Click the network icon in the bottom right corner of Windows, open the Network and Sharing Center.
2. Click the Change adapter settings link on the left.
3. Find the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter and remember the network connection name given to it.
4. Right-click the network connection that's connected to the Internet, select Properties, and select the Sharing tab.
5. Check Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection, choose the network connection name for the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter that you looked up earlier, and click OK. 

Step 4:

Now you need to start this hosted network, for this type in command :

netsh wlan start hostednetwork

Press enter.

The hosted network started. Will the next message.

 Step 5:

It will automatically turn off after a restart or shutdown, however, enter the following to manually stop it:

netsh wlan stop hostednetwork

To see the Wireless Hosted Network details, including the MAC addresses of connected users, enter the following: 

netsh wlan show hostednetwork

Hope it was helpful