Heres the thing, the only source of entertainment I have is my Dell Latitude D160 laptop that I received from my job, I just bought half life 2 and installed it, it was running pretty choppy so I looked at my drivers for the Mobile Intel(R) 915GM Express Chipset that is on this computer and they date back to 2004.
I downloaded the driver update but after it unpacks the files it says the same message that I get when I try to update the drivers automatically." You must have administrative privileges to execute this file" and aborts the installation.
What I did is when it got to the " You must have administrative privileges to execute this file" window, I copied all the files associated with the update and moved them from the temp direcotry to a permanent one. I then went to control panel and looked at all the files that are associated with the current driver that I am using now and copied those, so I have a backup of the original driver files just in case.
I havent done this yet , but I was just going to manually replace each file that is associated with the old 2004 driver with the files that were unpacked from the new driver update,
Is this dangerous?
Updating Graphic Drivers in XP pro without Administrative Privledges
Submitted by mranderson on September 23, 2007 - 3:18pm.
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Re: Updating Graphic Drivers in XP pro without Administrative Pr
November 8, 2007 - 8:56am
>>>so I looked at my drivers for the Mobile Intel(R) 915GM Express Chipset
And that right there is probably your problem. That is seriously one suck a$$ graphics card.
I know, I have the same one in my Vaio. It has all the specifications to be able to handle the game, but it doesn't. I'm fairly positive that even with the driver update, you're still going to have choppy play.
Anybody want to buy a Sony Vaio? 
I would go with asking the IT dept. to update the drivers - unless you were never supposed to install the game in the first place;-) I'll have to look over the question again, becuase I'm not sure what you're trying to do. Are in the System32 drivers folder? The hardware is most likely pointed at that folder. Can you update through device manager?
The really big question is, can you get to the group policy editor?
Start->Run->gpedit.msc
You may be able to change your permissions there, but it's an extensive study.
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