Order of devices loaded on startup

[Guest]

Using WinXP with all current service packs I have added an older Dell USB
wireless network device which works well once connected. I would like to try
and have the device load first rather than last when starting the machine.
Network drive mapping is occuring before the wireless device loads.

Is there a sloution for this? Thank you.

 

[Guest]

Jeff,

This can be done but may be more trouble than it's worth. You would need to
go into the device manager and determine all of the drivers associated with
the USB stack and wireless network device and then change the service
registry keys to re-arrange the load dependencies so that these drivers were
loaded early.

It might be easier to use non-persistent connections and then create a
startup script that does a timed wait before re-creating the connections.

 

[Guest]

John:

Thanks for your thoughts, I am afraid though that "It might be easier to use
non-persistent connections and then create a
startup script that does a timed wait before re-creating the connections."
is way over my head.

Can you describe in elementary terms or maybe I should just live with things??

Thanks again.

 

[Guest]

Jeff,

I guess the first question is how is your network drive mapping being
performed now? I'm assuming that you mapped the drives using Explorer and
checked the box that says "Reconnect at logon"?

If this is what you are doing now you could un-map the drives in Explorer
use a batch file that makes the connection either when you ran the batch file
by clicking on a link or automatically by adding the batch file to the
startup folder and using the sleep.exe tool from the Windows Resource Kit to
delay creating the connection for a certain period of time.

An example batch file that would be automatically run from the Startup
folder and delays 20 seconds and before making the connections would look
like this:

sleep 20
net use x: \\server\share1 /PERSISTENT:NO /user:"Logon Name" password
net use y: \\server\share2 /PERSISTENT:NO /user:"Logon Name" password
net use z: \\server\share3 /PERSISTENT:NO /user:"Logon Name" password


The resource kit can be downloaded from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en