Enable Windows 10 & 11 WiFi Hotspot - Powershell Script

enable-wifi.ps1

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45833873/enable-win10-inbuild-hotspot-by-cmd-batch-powershell/60444585#answer-60444585
[Windows.System.UserProfile.LockScreen,Windows.System.UserProfile,ContentType=WindowsRuntime] | Out-Null

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime
$asTaskGeneric = ([System.WindowsRuntimeSystemExtensions].GetMethods() | ? { $_.Name -eq 'AsTask' -and $_.GetParameters().Count -eq 1 -and $_.GetParameters()[0].ParameterType.Name -eq 'IAsyncOperation`1' })[0]
Function Await($WinRtTask, $ResultType) {
    $asTask = $asTaskGeneric.MakeGenericMethod($ResultType)
    $netTask = $asTask.Invoke($null, @($WinRtTask))
    $netTask.Wait(-1) | Out-Null
    $netTask.Result
}

# https://stackoverflow.com/a/55563418
$connectionProfile = [Windows.Networking.Connectivity.NetworkInformation,Windows.Networking.Connectivity,ContentType=WindowsRuntime]::GetInternetConnectionProfile()
$tetheringManager = [Windows.Networking.NetworkOperators.NetworkOperatorTetheringManager,Windows.Networking.NetworkOperators,ContentType=WindowsRuntime]::CreateFromConnectionProfile($connectionProfile)

# Be sure to include Ben N.'s await for IAsyncOperation:
# https://superuser.com/questions/1341997/using-a-uwp-api-namespace-in-powershell

# Check whether Mobile Hotspot is enabled
$tetheringManager.TetheringOperationalState

# Start Mobile Hotspot
Await ($tetheringManager.StartTetheringAsync())([Windows.Networking.NetworkOperators.NetworkOperatorTetheringOperationResult])

# Stop Mobile Hotspot
#Await ($tetheringManager.StopTetheringAsync())([Windows.Networking.NetworkOperators.NetworkOperatorTetheringOperationResult])

Isn't GPT 4 awesome I just made all this in fifteen minutes

Not work.
Exeption in call "CreateFromConnectionProfile"

Many thanks to your script! I've modified the script to restart the Hotspot every 5 seconds if it is not turned on. It is very helpful for sharing the Ethernet to my smartphone. The periodic check is due to my poor constantly disconnecting Ethernet.

Not work. Exeption in call "CreateFromConnectionProfile"

@Yoda49
Is it due to the administrator privilege?

I apologize I'm much too busy to help you but you could just paste all that code into chat GPT and it'll help you with it it's kind of a good habit to get into just make sure to give it really really detailed responses about you know your operating system setup and what you intend and your wi fi names and everything tell it what operating system you're on everything you could think of

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