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Laptop hotspot suspicious problems

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My laptop hotspot uses Microsoft wifi direct virtual adapter #2 on my laptop. hotspot works as normal when i enable hotspot. however when i off hotspot the ssid of the network still appears from another device like my phone (isnt it supposed to be off?) and furthermore the ssid changes from <hotspot name> to DIRECT<hotspot name>msGo? any one can advice i really need help on this i cant find help on google OR do you recommend me to contact microsoft? thank you very very much in advance.

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This sounds to me like your device has WIFI Direct turned on. The only way to turn this off afaik is through CMD.

 

Open Start, type: CMD


Right click CMD
Click Run as administrator

 

Type in at the prompt OR Copy and Paste these one at a time : (Hit enter after each)

netsh wlan stop hostednetwork

 

Then type:

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=disallow

 

Hit Enter

Exit then restart.

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ok thanks will try

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that has not solved my problem unfortunately

 

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