well, i was looking at me adapter settings when I noticed a new adapter called 'microsoft virtual wifi miniport adapter'. soz, i go diggin around the interwebs to find out what dafaq it is. turns out it is sorta like vmware or virtual box for your wifi adapter. lets u connect to a seperate ad-hoc network or run a hotspot without having to get another physical adapter, meaning that you can run a hotspot, or connect to a wifi printer w/o disconnecting from your wifi interwebs.....
finally, they came up wit something useful....
http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/what-is-microsoft-virtual-wifi-miniport-adapter/