I'm having a problem with my laptop. On startup when the computer starts and it gets to preparing for network connections it freezes for about 3 minutes. I've discovered that it has something to do with the wireless network card on the laptop. If I disable the wireless nic, the preparing network connections portion of the start up is much much faster. I'm guessing it has something to do with the wireless network card not being connected to an established wireless network. So the problem is solved. But I was wondering is there another way to solve it, such as disabling a setting that will stop windows from trying to find a wireless network on bootup, speeding up the preparing network connections portion of startup. The reason I ask this is the organization I work for uses ghost to image computers. So when the laptop is imaged the wireless network card has to be disabled again constantly. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

There is a Networking forum that specializes in networking problems. Sorry, I do not check for private messages

Just disable the card in Device Manager