Stupid School Putters

[delta770]

OK.....here's the stupid thing that my school did.
they bought p3 800mhz......but they are running everyting at 800X640(256 color) and they did something to the display.cpl

is there anyway to change the display????

--770

[chrisjk]

Next time you go in, take a sledgehammer with you. Threaten to take all machines out unless they up the reso.

On second thoughts, don't. Likely to get you busted. Use a fake foam banana instead. Just as dangerous, as it sends them into fits of laughter.

[parksie]

Claim ergonomics and that you need the display frequency at at least 85Hz...and while they're doing it tell them to up the res

[delta770]

thanx for all the suggestions...*cough, cough*

but is there anything practical that i can do??

it's really annoying, cause i'm working on those macines for 2 periods (2.20hours)

--770

[parksie]

What have they done to the .cpl file?

[chrisjk]

prob just disabled it in poledit

[ricmitch_uk]

If they let you use Access then you have vb1.1 (hehe). I figured this out, and told my Administrator in minute detail how I could exploit this and crash his entire network of precious PCs with minimum privilages (Hehehe I am EVIL aren't I?).
Anyway.
Put a button on a form in Access and then put this code behind it from VB.

Call Shell("rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL display.cpl", vbNormalFocus)

That lets you view the display.cpl (I think)

If you can't do that then just suck up to your Admin and get him to either, up the res. himself/herself, or get him/her to give you higher privilages. Say you need them to program or something like that, they always do that in my experience, if you make it look like you need them for a little extra-curricular IT activites, eg. programming for which you may need certain privilages (like DOS access). Another option is somehow blagging your way onto the server (say you forgot your password and want to change it), and change the privilages yourself, (easy if you've used Poledit before, or even if you haven't).

I really do know too much about hacking and social engineering don't I?
HTH