The Best Part of Windows Mobility Center in Windows Vista

Windows Vista a new operating system introduced by Microsoft Corporation is really amazing with lots of new features and enhancements over the previous Windows XP. One of the amazing features introduced in Windows Vista is the Windows Mobility Center. This new amazing feature is meant for the laptop users who are bothered about management of different devices at one place.

For laptop users that have Vista installed on their computers, this would be something for you to read. If not, then I'm afraid this tutorial won't serve you much of a purpose but still you can read the tutorial and increase your knowledge about Windows Vista considering that it's exclusive for that.

This is really a great tool for laptop users who have Windows Vista installed on their laptops. Basically, this tool allows you to manage the display brightness, turn your Wi-Fi on/off, adjust the volume of the laptop, connect an external display device, synchronize center that allows you to change the settings, presentation settings and a battery status notification from where you can select the mode of your battery.

The shortcut key to open up the Windows Mobility Center is to press Win Key + X. As soon as you press these keys, a new window will appear and that's the Windows Mobility Center. I have attached a screenshot of the same.

If at some time you decide to disable this amazing feature of Windows Vista then let me teach you how to do the same. For those who don't know what Windows Mobility Center exactly is, then this is the time to learn about Windows Mobility Center.

In order to disable Windows Mobility Center, you will have to hack your registry. Again by the word "hack the registry", I mean that you will have to modify certain parameters of your windows registry. Make sure that you take a backup of the registry in order to prevent accidental damage to it because if your registry gets damaged then you will end up with a corrupt operating system. In other words, you will not be able to start Windows.

Manual Registry Hack

Click the 'Start Menu' button and select 'Run'. A new window will appear, there type "regedit" and press 'Enter' key. A registry editor window will appear. Navigate to the following key listed below;

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesMobilityCenter

If you don't see it, you will need to create an entry for the same. Create a 32-bit DWORD entry on the right side of the registry editor and name it as NoMobilityCenter. Finally, assign it a value of 1.