ralink wifi adapter or microsoft virtual miniport adapter

After Reboot my wifi worked but I went to device manager and sure enough Windows had added two more adapters. But I just knew that MS would think it would be smarter than me and reinstall the ones I deleted. So I decided to uninstall all the # numbered ones and leave the original one and then reboot the computer. I had the main one and at least seven other ones listed as above with #13, #14 etc all the way up to 18. Click the item that states show hidden devices. Go to Device Manager and choose view option. The consensus was to disable or uninstall the Virtual Adapter. So I googled this adapter and found others had the same problem. It finally dawned on me that maybe this has been my problem this whole time. I had noticed the 'Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter before but it would disappear as soon as I disabled and then the enabled dance. Oh btw an easy solution always suggested is to update drivers.

So I have been doing this dance for about a month now.

A friend is loaning me his Wi-Fi dongle and it worked great. But sadly my joy ended when the #$%^&*( disconnected again. Viola after that it acted though it was going to really work this time. At this point I knew I would have to do the dreaded cold boot. Then it would stop but this time there was a yellow construction symbol. Then I got tired of rebooting every time it disconnected.so I started going to Device Mange, disabling the Ralink, then enabling it and it would work.for a while. When it first start happening I would just reboot the computer and it would work.for a while. In the system tray it shows the Wi-fi icon and it works for say 10 hours then it disconnects. I have been dealing with this problem for a few months. Tonight I finally have confirmation that my Ralink RT5390 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter is not bad.

Ralink wifi adapter or microsoft virtual miniport adapter