12May2008

Greetings.
For various reasons I no longer use
the 802.11b miniPCI card installed in my T30.
I instead use a 802.11b/g pcmcia card.

How can I remove the miniPCI card from WinXP
without removing the card from the T30?
If I "uninstall" the card, WinXP "finds" &
reinstalls the card every reboot.
I should not disable the XP Plug & Play service.
I do not want to always have
the disabled miniPCI icon
in my Network Connections window ...

Disabling does not remove the icon
from the NWC config in WinXP.
I do not want the miniPCI icon in NWC
anymore because I will not use it.
This is one too many NWC icons
for my AutoHotKey (AHK) scripts &
other configuration settings.
My scripts/configs handle between
one and three NWC icons.
I do not want to have to remove the card.

Under WinME uninstalling something
from a hardware profile/config
removes the item until the user
reinstalls the item. WinME does not
have the Plug&Play service that XP does.
WinME finds the uninstalled but not
removed item when Add Hardware is run;
however, the user can tell WinME
to not reinstall the item. XP P&P finds &
installs (even if disabled) the PCI card.

For the time being I have modified
my AHK startup script to uninstall
the PCI card every reboot
(when I choose run full startup script).

Any insights appreciated.
Thank you.
Regards,
AEN
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