changing DPI settings (WinXP) without admin rights?

[The111]

I have no admin rights on my work PC and dealing with the techs here is a major PITA. I can get a tech to come to my desk, give me temporary admin rights, and allow me to switch my DPI. But I want to be able to switch it on my own frequently, because for certain applications I prefer it a certain way.

Is there any way to change this without admin rights?

When I try to change the DPI settings it prompts for installation of a driver (which is the part I can't do without the admin rights), but even after a successful change (with my temporary admin rights when the tech is at my desk) it still prompts for the driver install on future attempts...

 

[montag451]

Ask the techs -
The reason that there is admin rights and other permissions is to stop ppl playing with their settings and f&&%^$g it up.

If you have a tech with a reasonable sense or reason (!??!) and you can explain to him what you want and you know how to do it and how it will make your job easier and help you to be more efficient to the firm, then he may sort out your problem.

Other than that, get someone to hack into their system, give you temporary admin rights to enable you to set your own permissions, then cover their tracks.
simple really

 

[The111]

I'm not sure I understand what I can screw up by changing DPI settings. It's not the DPI change that Windows prevents me from doing - it's the driver install that is always prompted when switching DPI, even after the driver has already been installed!

I was thinking there may be a way around it, because of something else I was able to do recently.

I installed a small software package that refused to run because a few key DLL's could not be written during the installation process, because of no admin rights. So I found those DLL's in the install package and manually placed them in system32 directory. Software works perfect now. 😉 I'm am thinking maybe if I knew which file was required for the DPI switch, I could do something similar...

 

[montag451]

If a tech is leaving you permissions to go into the system32 dir, then what is the point in denying you anything else?
Well done for finding that workaround, BUT, really you should hassle the itdept to give you permission to do this...... Why wouldn't they? Especially if they let you access all areas at the moment.

 

[The111]

Why wouldn't they?

I work for a very big, bureaucratic company. There is no point in asking why; it's like arguing with a brick wall. "You can't fight city hall" ring a bell?

I've had cool techs give me admin access before, only to have it removed by company issued login scripts that determined I shouldn't have those rights.

Getting admin rights is out of the question.

What remains in my mind is:

1) WHY does the DPI setting change keep prompting me for driver install, every time? I can call a tech to my desk to change DPI once... if I could figure out a way to make the "driver install" he ok's permanent, then I'd never have to call him over again.
2) Is there a back-door way for me to manually fix the problem, the way I described in the other example?