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Does it make any sense in disabling mouse right click in Windows? We all know how useful right click is and even Apple’s Mighty Mouse can do right click in Mac OS now. Well, in Mac, if you have a single button mouse, hold the CTRL key and click the mouse will simulate right click to bring out context menu.

OK back to the topic. When I was 16 years old, I worked part time at a cyber cafe. That’s where I really had the chance to learn a lot about simple networking, software and Windows operating system. Once there was a boss’s friend, who doesn’t know anything about computer at all. I saw him sitting at a workstation and he was playing around with the mouse. I didn’t care much about it as I was doing my own thing.

When he left and I went to do my routine maintenance on the PC, I saw the desktop was filled with new folders and shortcuts. I bet he must have had a great time right clicking on icons to create more shortcut icons and also new folders! Luckily he didn’t do any real damage to the operating system. I just need to delete away the shortcuts icons and new folders. I thought to myself, if only I knew how to disable mouse right click…


There’s a registry hack to restrict or disable mouse right click. The only catch is it only works at desktop and explorer. Not totally flawless as people can still drag files and folders and drop them everywhere but it does provide some level of protection.

Go to Start > Run > type REGEDIT and hit enter. Navigate to:

Right click at an empty area on the right column and select New > DWORD Value. Use the name NoViewContextMenu. Double click the name and set the value data as 1.

Adding the registry tweak above will disable mouse right click for ALL users. If you only want to disable for the current logged in user, you should add the registry tweak to HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

There’s a software called BasicMouse, used to call BabyMouse, which is allows parents and teachers (or anyone) to easily restrict several functions of the computer mouse and keyboard.

The right mouse button can be switched off completely, all buttons can be set to send left-clicks, mouse clicks can be restricted to a particular area of the screen and much more. It is intended to make it easier to use the computer, by for instance eliminating the problem of accidental right-clicks and the resulting context menus. A really useful program for students and kids who are still learning to use the mouse or who keeping accidentally clicking the right-mouse button.

BasicMouse requires the Microsoft .NET 2.0 framework. One thing I don’t like about BasicMouse is it is advertised as FREEWARE on a lot of sites but it is actually a shareware which cost $8.95. If you don’t buy the PRO version, you get to only use some of the restrictions for 5 minutes. Well, there is basicmouse.3.6.0.0.keygen-tsrh.zip. There is also a serial number released by a guy named Magnum which is blacklisted. Using the blacklisted serial number will ONLY pull up this message “”Illegal key fraud detected!! Modifying Master Boot Record.. Sending IP address via Port 4131… Deleting all system files…. Next time you’d better pay 9.95 if you like the software! Press OK or CTRL ALT DEL to format your local hard drives“.

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