Create Wi-Fi Hotspot without installing any software - Windows 10 Tips and Tricks

We use different types of 3rd party hotspot softwares to share our wi-fi, but in windows 10 we can create a wi-fi hotspot without using any 3rd party software by simply using command prompt. Looks amazing right? Lets just follow the steps below how to create a wi-fi hotspot in command prompt

1. Open Command Prompt (Run as Admin): You can open command prompt in windows 10 many different ways, by right clicking on the start menu, seaching in the start menu and selecting Run as admin or by using Windows Run command.

 2. first of all we need to check if the system drivers support hosted network means wi-fi sharing or not by typing a command in the command prompt

command :  netsh wlan show drivers

and press Enter and check "Yes" option in the "hosted network supported"

if Yes is showing then your system support hosted network sharing.

Note : If Hosted network supported showing No. Your System doesnot support Wi-fi hotspot.

3. Now type the following command in the cmd.

command :

network wlan hosted network mode=allow ssid=win10explore key=Microsoft

Here SSID means your desired network name and Key is the desired password for that network.

4.when you press Enter you can see a message showing that hosted network mode successfully created.

Congratulations you created your own Wi-Fi hotspot.

5. Now we need to start this service, to make Wi-Fi hotspot service on type the following command

command : netsh wlan start hosted network

Hosted network started.

6. To stop Hosted network type netsh wlan stop hosted network in the command prompt.

the hosted network stopped.