M92p disabling wireless in BIOS

We have a requirement, for security purposes, to turn off the wireless network cards in our fleet of M92p's (model: 3238A72).
I have updated the BIOS on one machine from version 9SKT61AUS to 9SKT81AUS and Lenovo still only gives you the ability to disable onboard audio and the ethernet NIC.
Is there perhaps a function key combination at boot or a Windows utility - other than manually disabling the wireless via device manager - that will allow us to disable the wirless card?

What specifically did you disable before you did your install of Windows 7.
Some items will be turned on automatically when you install Windows, it just a matter of which ones are  instlalled and going back in and turning them off after installation
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