Open Windows Mobility Center in Windows 11 or 10

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Open Windows Mobility Center in Windows 11 or 10

In certain versions of Windows, designed specifically for laptops and other mobile devices, you can access the Windows Mobility Center. The Mobility Center allows you to manage and adjust settings specific to mobile devices from one central place. You can easily adjust settings such as wireless network connections, power management (including screen brightness and power saving plans), external displays, and sometimes audio quality here.

The Mobility Center is useful because it gives you quick access to these settings without having to navigate through multiple menus or settings. Please note that availability and specific options of the Mobility Center may vary depending on your needs version of Windows and the specific hardware and configuration of your device.

Because the mobility center is only available for mobile devices such as laptops, you cannot open it on a desktop computer. In this guide you can read how to open Mobility Center on any computer, including a desktop computer.

Open Windows Mobility Center in Windows 11 or 10

To begin opens the Windows registry. We have to make some adjustments to the registry to be able to use the mobility center on any computer.

Go to the next key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MobilePC

Under this key you create two new folders. You do this by right-clicking on “MobilePC” and choosing “New” and then “Key”. You create the following keys.

  • AdaptableSettings
  • MobilityCenter

If these keys already exist, continue. This is the result.

new keys registry

Now right-click on the “AdaptableSettings” key. Click “New” and “DWORD 32-bit Value” in the menu. Give this DWORD value the following name:

  • SkipBatteryCheck
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Double-click “SkipBatteryCheck” and change the value data to “1”. This is the result:

SkipBatteryCheck

Now right-click on the “MobilityCenter” key. Click “New” and “DWORD 32-bit Value” in the menu. Give this DWORD value the following name:

  • RunDesktop

Double-click “RunDesktop” and change the value data to “1”. This is the result:

RunDesktop

Now restart your computer to be able to open Mobility Center on a desktop computer.

To open Windows Mobility Center, right-click on the Start button. Click Run in the menu. In the run window type: mblctr.exe

Open Windows Mobility Center

Windows Mobility Center will now open.

Windows Mobility Center

I hope this helped you. Thank you for reading!

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