Turn off Device discovery - Windows XP

[Guest]

I am creating an XP image using a previous image. That Image had drivers
installed for the built-in wireless card. On this image I do not want them to
use wireless (I disabled it in the BIOS). Even so, when I disable or
uninstall the driver and use sysprep to create my image, it reloads the
driver when I install my new image and puts a red X over it. This causes the
laptop to hang for several minutes while the connect effort times out. So I
was wondering how to permanently disable this one device from trying to
install. I dont want to disable all of plug and play.

Thanks for your help

 

[Jetro]

Does a laptop have a switch/button for wireless device?

 

[Guest]

Yes. And even with the button off it still finds the card.