Connectify was a great freeware but has now became a paid service, luckily there are many alternatives available for creating virtual wi-fi hotspot on your computer. OSToto Hotspot is yet another freeware tool with a weird name to get the job done, the utility is FREE and has no advertising to bug you. All it takes is a single-click to create a virtual Wi-Fi hotspot on your laptop/notebook/desktop computer with a working wireless adapter turning it into a Wi-Fi wireless access point. The utility supports all flavors of Windows OS including Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, XP, Vista, Windows Server and comes with WPA2 PSK password security to safe guard your wifi hotspot from authorized usage.

While Bzeek offers an excellent free utility to share your internet connection over WiFi, another free and open source software based router for computers using Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 is "Virtual Router".

As the name suggests, the software enables users to wirelessly share any internet connection on there PC/laptop (Wifi, LAN, Cable Modem, Dial-up, Cellular, etc.) with any Wifi device (Laptop, Smart Phone, iPod Touch, iPhone, Android Phone, Zune, Netbook, wireless printer, etc.) without requiring an dedicated WiFi router hardware, this "advertisement free" (unlike Connectify) utility creates an "Virtual Router" by utlizing Windows 7 built-in adhoc WiFi sharing capabilities - the acess-point created is completely secured using WPA2.