From: "Geo." 

I have 3 NICs on my thinkpad, 100baseT, wireless, and bluetooth. I disable
the two I'm not currently using and it's never re-enabled anything
automatically.

Geo.

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:4126023c{at}w3.nls.net...
> I hope this isn't noise to Thees' problem, but I've observed WinXP has a
nasty
> habit of reenabling a manually disabled NIC, whenever it thinks connectivity
> is in trouble.  No pattern to it.  Have you seen this on any of your 2k
> machines?  I never have.  I think it's an artifact of too much sneaky private
> talk between recent BIOSes and XP (g).
>

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