Hardware profiles and laptop docking stations

[g00ner]

I have a scenario where l have a laptop with both a wired and a wireless NIC. When docked l want to use the wired card and for extra security have the wireless disabled. And when undocked have the wireless enabled and wired disabled.

This can easily be done with hardware profiles. The problem l have is if l then plug the laptop into a different docking station it generates a new hardware profile with the wireless card enabled.

Is there a way of tell windows xp when creating a new hardware profile always disable the wireless card?

[g00ner]

If anyone else is interested l mmanaged to find a way of doing this.

You will need to determine the vendor id of the wireless network card. To do this got to Device Manager, go to the properties of the wireless network card and click on the Details Tab. Make a note of the VEN string

Go to the registry HKLM-> System-> CurrentControlSet-> Hardware Profiles->0001-> System-> CurrentControlSet-> Enum->PCI

Export the VEN Key that relates to your wireless NIC to a reg file

Edit the reg file and change all occurrences of 0001 to 0000.

Double click on the reg file to import it into the registry

Go to HKLM-> System-> CurrentControlSet-> Hardware Profiles->0000-> System-> CurrentControlSet-> Enum->PCI

Then expand your VEN key, there will be a sub-key probably starting 4&…. you will need to create a new DWORD

DWORD should be called CSConfigFlags and should be set to 1 in Decimal.