Hello! How can I configure windows to wait for wireless network to be established before it login to my user account at startup? At the moment XP starts up, loading desktop applications and only after that it start looking for wireless networks and loging to a preferred network. This behavior creates problem with network drives, they stay disconnected until I manually click on them to open (after wireless connection established) and many applications can not "see" disconnected network drives. I've already turned on "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" in group policy - it didn't help. That PC has two network cards - PCI 10/100 (its disabled) and USB WiFi 54mbps adapter. Using windows built-in wifi configuration. Thank you.

try this: turn off the wireless zero config service (unless you need to check every minute or two for available networks). you can do that manually thru services.msc or use this free tool: http://download.elligs.net/wzs123.exe Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'

but then I kill the wireless connection because it will not look for the available networks and will not connect to the prefered...am I wrong?