Netsh wlan start hostednetwork, The hosted network couldn't be started.

 While trying to share my wifi connection, the error "The hosted network couldn't be started. The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation." happened and I wanted to share how to solve this issue.

 The problem comes from the adapter that can be in "sleep mode".

 As explained in the KB (https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2625519), follow this instructions : 

1. Click on the Start button and select Control Panel.
2. Select System and Security.
3. Select Device Manager under System.
4. Select and expand the Network adapters from the list of devices.
5. Find the wireless network adapter and right-click on it and select Properties.
   > If you cannot find your adapter in the device manager you might need to restart your computer.
   > The 2 next steps are not really required, what you need to do now is to enable your device
6. Select the Power Management tab.
7. Under the Power Management tab, make sure the following option is checked (enabled): “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".

 You should now be able to restart your hosted network using the classical wlan command.

 "PS C:\Windows\system32> netsh wlan start hostednetwork

 The hosted network started."

 Hope this helps.

 Linvi

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 26, 2013
  indeed it worked. asante sana rafiki

• Anonymous
  April 08, 2013
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• Anonymous
  April 12, 2013
  Great it worked!!!

• Anonymous
  May 06, 2013
  thankz guysssss.......

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2013
  funciona gracias

• Anonymous
  May 23, 2013
  already checked

• Anonymous
  May 25, 2013
  it work now but i still dont have internet acces on my smartphone!

• Anonymous
  May 29, 2013
  Does not work. If the checkbox is already checked.....then this is not a solution. Thanks anyway!

• Anonymous
  June 10, 2013
  Select the properties of wireless hosted network and enable it.

• Anonymous
  June 11, 2013
  it still does not work and when i went to powermanagement that was already checked

• Anonymous
  June 19, 2013
  it worked thanks:)

• Anonymous
  June 24, 2013
  thanks

• Anonymous
  June 30, 2013
  This hostednetwork drops connection in every few minutes. I have checked all the above said settings and its same but still i am facing this same problem. Kindly provide me the solution. Thanks.... k13projects@gmail.com

• Anonymous
  July 05, 2013
  Try this............

1. Go to device manager.
2. Click on view and press on "show hidden devices".
3. Go down to the list of devices and expand the node "Network Devices" .
4. Find an adapter with the name "Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter" and then right click on it.
5. Select Enable
6. This will enable the AdHoc created connection, it should appear in the network connections in Network and Sharing Center, if the AdHoc network connection is not appear then open elevated command prompt and apply this command "netsh wlan stop hostednetwork" without quotations.
7. After this, the connection should appear.

• Anonymous
  July 06, 2013
  Million thnks Vaibhav, it workd fr me!

• Anonymous
  July 23, 2013
  I love u vaibhav :)) you safe me :) thx a lot :)

• Anonymous
  July 24, 2013
  I have done the same setting Vaibhav, still not working for me :(

• Anonymous
  July 24, 2013
  Thanks It worked for me :)

• Anonymous
  July 27, 2013
  Great

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2013
  really helped me thanx lot

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2013
  ON my Win7 Embedded,  the Show hidden does NOT show Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter- how do we fix it?

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2013
  it really helped thanks

• Anonymous
  August 17, 2013
  thx man xD

• Anonymous
  August 25, 2013
  C:Windowssystem32>netsh wlan start hostednetwork The hosted network couldn't be started. A device attached to the system is not functioning. Still the same error. I have been here trying so much for this one thing. but nothing..pls help

• Anonymous
  August 27, 2013
  hello! mine also. still like this: "The hosted network couldn't be started. A device attached to the system is not functioning." i tried doing  the "Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter" but when i checked it is already enabled.. /// please help/ thank you sir

• Anonymous
  August 29, 2013
  Thank you, vaibhav!

• Anonymous
  September 13, 2013
  This doesn't worked for me. My "Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter" was disabled. After enabled all work well

• Anonymous
  September 22, 2013
  It doesn't worked for me too. "Microsoft hosted network virtual adapter" not found in Device manager

• Anonymous
  September 25, 2013
  thank you so much vaibhav. it worked for me

• Anonymous
  September 29, 2013
  thanks so much

• Anonymous
  October 05, 2013
  ttthhhhhnnxxxxxxssssss...IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Anonymous
  October 19, 2013
  Waoh it worked' now am enjoying it>>> asante sana

• Anonymous
  October 20, 2013
  In my system Microsoft hosted network virtual adapter is not showing please help me.

• Anonymous
  October 20, 2013
  waw it's worked

• Anonymous
  October 22, 2013
  Thanx a ton Vaibhav

• Anonymous
  October 25, 2013
  Try to turn on your wifi on, and follow the steps again. LOL

• Anonymous
  October 26, 2013
  That was it, I forgot I turned it off when I was attempting to use my phone as the provider rather than the PC. Thanks!

• Anonymous
  November 08, 2013
  thank you so much vaibhav it helped me solve the issue with the adhoc network

• Anonymous
  November 15, 2013
  how to remove hosted network? please help to me.

• Anonymous
  December 02, 2013
  Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter is not visible, can any one help to provide driver download link

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2013
  did not worked for me on Windows 8 Dell n4050

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2013
  not worked for me, all my network devices already enabled and all power management already checked

• Anonymous
  December 14, 2013
  my PC not show "Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter". How fix? I reinstall divers but not see.

• Anonymous
  January 08, 2014
  thanks a lot vaibhav it worked...

• Anonymous
  January 11, 2014
  Tons of Thanks to all  of you ...Special thanks to vaibhav

• Anonymous
  January 23, 2014
  go to device maneger-> wirless adapeter-> properties-> advanced tab-set Qos adhoc mode enabled

• Anonymous
  February 15, 2014
  Great this worked for me. Thanks

• Anonymous
  March 04, 2014
  Currently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer. (Code 45) getting this error

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2014
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  April 03, 2014
  HOW TO FIX THIS ERROR The hosted network couldn't be started. A device attached to the system is not functioning

• Anonymous
  April 16, 2014
  just follow  d steps by vaibhav it really works@kalpa

• Anonymous
  April 28, 2014
  Thnx u r the best

• Anonymous
  May 19, 2014
  thank You. enabling the hidden device Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter worked

• Anonymous
  May 19, 2014
  all try all method but error continues showing

• Anonymous
  May 30, 2014
  thanks

• Anonymous
  May 30, 2014
  how to access shared internet in window 8 OS . when i try to to connect in win 8 OS it's show limited access and internet dos't access but shared internet access through win 7 OS . please solve problem for win 8 os

• Anonymous
  June 20, 2014
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  June 26, 2014
  how fix when <netsh wlan show drivers> shows hosted network supported :no

• Anonymous
  August 01, 2014
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  October 24, 2014
  works, thanks

• Anonymous
  November 13, 2014
  disabling then enabling wireless network adapter under network adapters in device manager solved my problem. it brought ms virtual wifi miniport adapter back

• Anonymous
  November 14, 2014
  Guys...if this error comes during hosting wlan hostednetwork i.e a device attacted to the system is not functioning then first off your bluetooth device and then try hosting again. again if it doesn't work then goto device manager...network adapter...check out microsoft hosted network virtual adapter is enable or not. if it is not showing in the list at top click view...then you can see microsoft virtual adapter and enable it and then restart it. somes times due to firewall hostednetwork could not get start, in that case turn it off and try....hosting

• Anonymous
  December 16, 2014
  The key piece of information missing in all of this is that the pc WiFi has to be turned on. On windows 8.1 there seems to be a difference between Disable/Enable and On/Off.  My wifi adapter was Enabled in control panel, but was Off in the gui.  Turning in on and disconnecting from any Wifi caused the "start hostednetwork" to work.

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2015
  @tinkerbell The solution you provided worked for me. Thanks a lot

• Anonymous
  January 24, 2015
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  March 02, 2015
  C:Windowssystem32>netsh wlan start hostednetwork THE HOSTED NETWORK COULDN'T STARTED. THIS WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK INTERFACE IS POWER DOWN AND DOESN'T SUPPORT THE REQUESTED OPERATION pls solve this problem

• Anonymous
  April 25, 2015
  after the command "netsh wlan start hostednetwork" it throws error as "the hosted network couldn't be started . a device attached to the system is not functioning" . how can I solve this ?

• Anonymous
  April 25, 2015
  The hosted network couldn't be started. A device attached to the system is not functioning any idea on solving this?

• Anonymous
  May 02, 2015
  I'm running Windows 7 and I also got the message ''a device attached to the system is not functioning''.   This is what worked for me : go to device manager and uninstall your wireless LAN adapter. Then reboot and your sysytem will automatically install the driver again. Then do ''netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow'' and after that ''netsh wlan start hostednetwork''. Good luck!

• Anonymous
  August 08, 2015
  I got connected to the network but can't access the internet.

• Anonymous
  August 10, 2015
  I had the same problem, and then I turned on the Bluetooth connection and it started working

• Anonymous
  September 14, 2015
  thank u vaibhav it really worked ........ "the group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation windows 10 while trying to create wifi hotspot" and sol was "1. Go to device manager.

2. Click on view and press on "show hidden devices".
3. Go down to the list of devices and expand the node "Network Devices" .
4. Find an adapter with the name "Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter" and then right click on it.
5. Select Enable
6. This will enable the AdHoc created connection, it should appear in the network connections in Network and Sharing Center, if the AdHoc network connection is not appear then open elevated command prompt and apply this command "netsh wlan stop hostednetwork" without quotations.
7. After this, the connection should appear."

• Anonymous
  September 27, 2015
  Hi Girish I tried what you suggested, but I can't find "Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter" (even if I Show the hidden devices) What else can I do? I have an Asus R501V...

• Anonymous
  October 16, 2015
  I find the "Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual adapter", but enable option is not there. And showing below error in properties "Currently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer. (Code 45)"

• Anonymous
  October 20, 2015
  Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter is not showing in device manager. I tried to enable the option in the view tab of hidden folders visibility option. But still no use

• Anonymous
  February 07, 2016
  im gettin an error showing the hosted netwok culdnt be started. the wireless local area network interface is powerdown.please help

• Anonymous
  February 25, 2016
  I'm still getting this message The hosted network could'nt be started A device attached to this system is not functioning