switching from wireless to wired networking does not work

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With XP, I could be working on wireless, then plug in an ethernet cable and
traffic instantly switches over to the faster wired network. With Vista, this
does not work. Plugging in a wired cable does not switch the traffic. I have
to disable the wireless connection and restart explorer. Is there a way to
get this to work? Is it a security issue?
 
The metric values for the two cards are the same. Here is a copy of the route
table:

IPv4 Route Table
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.149 20
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.145 20
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
127.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 On-link 192.168.0.149 276
192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 On-link 192.168.0.145 276
192.168.0.145 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.0.145 276
192.168.0.149 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.0.149 276
192.168.0.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.0.149 276
192.168.0.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.0.145 276
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 192.168.0.149 276
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 192.168.0.145 276
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.0.149 276
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.0.145 276
===========================================================================

Is it possible to set something in the registry so the wired adapter gets a
lower metric?
 
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