

It is not possible to enable or disable these two functions separately in Windows. Enabling or disabling the wireless Hosted Network enables or disables both virtual Wi-Fi and SoftAP. These two functions coexist in a Windows system together.

A software-based wireless access point (AP) sometimes referred to as a SoftAP that uses a designated virtual wireless adapter.The virtualization of a physical wireless adapter into more than one virtual wireless adapter sometimes referred to as Virtual Wi-Fi.

This feature implements two major functions: The wireless Hosted Network is a new WLAN feature supported on Windows 7 and on Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Wireless LAN Service installed.
