SOLVED -- BSOD - Win7 - hostednetwork

Hi there, 

I am one of those guys who knows enough to be dangerous.

My machine is a Vostro 1015, with a very fresh and fully updated Win 7 Pro x86

I was researching a mysterious paper that was spit of my printer, which contained some networking info.  It referenced IP 192.168.137.1...

My research led me to the command:

netsh wlan

Which of course, being the adventerous type, continued the command with:

netsh wlan start hostednetwork

Immediately followed by BSOD.

I cannot enter safemode with networking(without further BSOD's), and so I cannot follow up with the command:

netsh wlan stop hostednetwork

Which I presume would undo my foolish decision to START it in the first place.

Entering that last command, from "safe mode without networking", gets me:

Wireless AutoConfig Service (wlansvc) is not running. The hosted network could not be stopped. Reason code is 0.

Further research into this problem, led me to more than one forum that discussed wifi adapter driver problems... But i'm not sure how that applies to me, or what to do about it.

Also, I had no intentions of setting up a Virtual Network, which I now understand that is what I was inadvertantly doing.

Any suggestions or ideas on undoing this would be helpful.

Thanks, Kris

PS, I can provide the BSOD dump files if that would be helpful.