Network adapter forgets shutdown state

I'm on a campaign to minimize my laptop. I have a few utilities, and

a few batch files set up so that I can readily switch the state of a

few services and adapters on my laptop, depending on what I need to

do. For example, I regularly use VMware, but not all the time. So,

my VMware services are set to manual, and my batch program does a few

'net start' commands to turn on the services I need to run VMware.

A couple of the VMware resources (and I don't use that word in any

sort of XP-esque sense), are the two network adapters that VMware

requires. I have installed the Microsoft devcon utility so that I can

turn on and off a network adapter from a command-line. I have my

batch program working just as I would like it.

The problem I'm having has to do with the startup state for the

Network adapters. (And by the way, I also switch between wireless,

and ethernet networking, so I have the same problems there...just

sticking with the VMware example for clarity). I can see that in my

default hardware profile, I have to specify whether a particular

network adapter is enabled or disabled for that profile. I don't want

to hard-code the state of the adapter. I want Windows to remember the

enabled/disabled stated of the adapter when I shutdown, and start back

up in the same state. Is there any way to do this?