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Disable Windows Mobility Center in Vista

Windows Mobility Center is a fairly useful tool for those of us using 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.

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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

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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

The Geek is the founder of How-To Geek and a geek enthusiast. When he's not coming up with great how-to articles, he's probably writing at his personal blog. This article was written on 08/23/07 and tagged with: Windows Vista, Vista Tips & Tweaks

Comments (4)

  1. Tim

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

  2. 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. supermansghost

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

  4. 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?


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