"Preparing Network Connections"

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This step has vanished from the startup sequence of a Dell laptop. Instead it skips straight from "Windows is starting up" to the logon screen (require Ctrl+Alt+Del is disabled), which unfortunately is unusable until the network connections have been prepared. Can anyone point me to some relevant documentation?

TIA,
Neil.
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