Taking too long to load.

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I have the inspiron E1705....well the thing is i installed a update for my wifi card and now it takes forever for it to load. Im sure there has to be some place that i can move the driver order but i cant find it. Its driving me nuts. When the laptop starts...i have to wait about a minute before the wifi will even start.. Not sure whats up but if anyone can help please do.. thanks in advance.

volcano11 · Answer

Is the Dell Network Assistant running from startup?  If so, go to msconfig and disable it from running from startup or, better yet, go to Control Panel Add/Remove programs and get rid of this buggy software.   Steve

smokestack04 · Answer

I dont see the network assistant anywhere. So i must not have it installed. But thanks again..any more ideas?

smokestack04 · Answer

Ok thanks for the fast reply. I will try that

smokestack04 · Answer

yeah i checked and its not in there. I did a search on the computer though and it shows it on here. It doesnt show up on the add remove programs and it doesnt show up under msconfig. So maybe its not installed?

volcano11 · Answer

Did you check the msconfig startup tab where it would be listed as Dell Network Assistant.   Steve

volcano11 · Answer

Which wireless network adapter do you have?  Are you using the adapter's utility to control the wireless network or are you using Windows to control the network?   Steve

smokestack04 · Answer

i have the 1390 wlan mini card. Im not sure what you mean about the logon part but i think its using the dell app for the wifi part. Thats the way it looks anyhow. dell utility im sure. I tried the windows app and it said im using a diff one.

smokestack04 · Answer

Before i did the update off the dells website the thing was loaded when windows booted. But now windows boots up..then about a minute later maybe longer the network thing finaly pops up and logs onto the network.

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