Selecting wireless network on start-up

Hi all,
I live in an area where there are lots of wireless networks around. Some of these are not secure, and my MacBook sometimes connect to these when I turn it on instead of my home wireless network (which is secure). Is there a way I can 'shut' out all of these other wireless network and connect to my home wireless network 100% of the time?
Any suggestions would be kindly appreciated.

You might try the following. Go into System Preferences, select Network, go into advanced and you will see a list of every network you have connected to. The list shows the preference order. First, move your network to the top of the list. I suspect you will see "AppleNetwork" there now. If you highlight AppleNetwork, you can delete it from the list entirely or move it down toward the bottom.

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