Disable Windows Mobility Center in Windows 7 or Vista

Windows Mobility Center is a fairly useful tool for those of us using Windows 7 or Vista on a laptop computer, but might not be for everybody, especially since it takes over the Win+X keyboard shortcut.

If you would rather disable Windows Mobility Center, all it takes is a single registry tweak.

Manual Registry Tweak

Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box and then navigate to the following key, creating it if it doesn’t exist:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\MobilityCenter

Now create a new 32-bit DWORD entry in the right-hand pane called NoMobilityCenter and give it a value of 1.

Download Registry Tweak

The zip file contains both DisableMobility.reg and EnableMobility.reg files that will allow you to enable or disable the Mobility Center easily.

Download DisableMobility.zip Registry Hack

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This article was originally written on 08/23/07 Tagged with: Disabling Features and Annoyances, Vista Tips & Tweaks, Windows 7, Windows Vista

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Comments (9)

1. August 23, 2007 3:19 pm
   Tim

   Yo, how would you get rid of this registry hack? Im guessing you would back track and just delete the registry value

2. August 23, 2007 3:42 pm
   The Geek

   All you have to do is use the EnableMobility.reg file that is included in the zipfile… it deletes the registry entries for you.

3. August 25, 2007 10:41 pm
   supermansghost

   This is a good tip.. that mobility center keeps popping up by accident.

4. October 23, 2007 8:46 pm
   darn

   I disabled Windows Mobility Center using the reg values listed. I then decided to revert to the status quo by deleting the registry key. A couple weeks later, I’ve decided that I want to disable it again. Only now when I add the same registry values as before, Windows Mobility Center doesn’t disable anymore.

   Any ideas?

5. December 30, 2008 1:02 pm
   Jasper

   Can I just delete the mobility center or will it jack up my computer? I’m trying to get as much free space so I can play Fable without it lagging.

6. February 21, 2009 3:32 am
   claudio

   I can’t believe it! I folow your instructions, but my “policies” is empty!!!!!!!!! There’s no explorer, mobility or system folder! How is it possible?

7. March 29, 2009 1:13 am
   crimson

   i got the same problem claudio! how can we fix it! this time iwant to run my WCM!

8. April 22, 2009 11:38 pm
   Will

   whenever I plug in a monitor to the laptop via HDMI it starts off with my previous settings, ie 2 seperate screens, as it is supposed to but a couple of seconds later decides to display a mirrored image… how can I stop this from happening?

9. October 10, 2009 3:03 pm
   HHook

   Hi there.

   I need to turn the win + e (the explorer keyboard shortcut) Can you help me on how to do this?

   My class mates think it’s very funny to open peoples PCs and hold down this shortcut… – freaking annoying

   thanks