So far the only thing I’ve found is using a SD card in a digital camera.

I’ll pass the article on to my IT but there must be some way to prevent some settings from being reset or to trick the laptop into reading a memory card. The laptop resets the settings which each start up. This is true for almost all settings which is why I cannot save “favorites” the desktop background and so forth. All the settings are back to the way they were. The problem occurs when I “turn on” my laptop in the morning. When IT logs in as admin and makes the change and I log back on as me the settings are fine.

But it does seem to be addressing “group settings.” IT will not change the group settings for all of its employees but they will grant me permission. Second, I read the article and it’s mostly Greek to me. Which why I need to know how to advise them. Thank you for all your advice but I need to clarify 2 things:įirst, I am not asking for help with “hacking” my company laptop. I can get temporary admin rights but I need to make a change to the drivers that will either be permanent or some kind of app I can run every time to get my drivers working. So the bottom line is I need to uninstall a driver without admin rights. Tech support has tried activating registry files without success. We’ve been searching for a more permanent solution. Hence every morning I must spend 30 minutes on the phone going through protocols just to get my laptop to take flash drives. But the change only lasts for a long as the laptop is on. Our company’s tech support team does and they can remote in with Administrative privileges and make the change.

However I cannot uninstall the drivers because I do not have Administrative privileges. When the laptop restarts all the USB drivers are fresh and ready to accept a flash card. The solution would normally be simple, go to Control Panel, System (etcetera) and uninstall the drivers. The USB drives will take devices like printers, a mouse, yes it will even take a camera when memory can be accesses, but I need the USB drives for regular flash cards. OK, here’s the situation we’re dealing with a Windows XP laptop where the USB drivers are set NOT to accept memory sticks. Sorry this is so long but I want to be detailed.

Uninstall mouse driver