Network intialization in Winbuilder without PENetwork

Hello,
I'm attemping to boot to Winbuilder (82) gui as quickly as possible with tcp/ip support.
I've used PENetwork and it works great.  But I think it runs too slow.
But when I don't use PENetwork the network card doesn't initialize.
The proper driver is injected using dism too.
I go into device manager and run an update on the ethernet controller and then network gets detected I get an IP then.

Also if I use the Hwpnp plugin that also installs ethernet controller.  But that is too slow too.

I thought I just had to run startnet without PENetwork & Hwpnp to intialize network.
But I'm wrong...help.

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Could you define slow? It's usually just a few seconds.

thank you.

Well.  20-25 secs
Screen pauses with mouse cursor too for 10secs before too.
not sure if PENetwork begining to launch...

Confused why the network card doesn't appear in device manager?

Any help would be apprecated!!

I watched the PENetowrk boot.

It finds card
runs winpe int.
ndis
wireless
dot3.... sharing I belive.

Does someone know how to eliminate the bottom three modules?

PENetwork runs wpeinit.exe to initialize network.

Can you post \Windows\system32\wpeinit.log after PENetwork has run.