Is it possible to 'apply' a registry change without rebooting?

I have a new mouse - roccat kova. It's good but one problem is that mouse settings get reset to default whenever I turn my computer off.

I am able to find out how to actually make the registry changes using the windows scripting host so that I can set it as a startup task each time windows loads, but this leaves an obvious problem - as far as I'm aware registry changes usually need a reboot.

Well a reboot is just going to undo the changes so I'm back to square one.

Is there a way (preferably in script, so I can automate it) to change registry settings and have them be applied to the device they correspond to in the current session? I want to set mouse sensitivity to 6 (from the default 10) and swapleftrightbuttons to 1*

(I know the roccat has a built-in swap buttons feature, but that also swaps the side buttons - I don't want that)

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Changing registry values does NOT require a reboot, they are "applied" immediately. Unless some program is reading these values at boot, there's no reason to reboot just for changing a registry value.

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