Any way to open Windows Mobility Center with Win+X in Windows 10?

Question

In Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1, the user could simply press Win+X to instantly display the Windows Mobility Center.

In Windows 10, Microsoft changed things, and the Win+X keyboard shortcut displays, by default, the lengthy context menu for the Start Menu.

Is there any way, in Windows 10, to restore the functionality of Win+X to instantly display the Windows Mobility Center?

Answer 1

You probably have the Windows Mobility Center disabled and the default Win+X is that context menu.

In order to enable it you can:

• Enable it in the Local Group Policy (Windows 10 Pro, Entreprise and Education only)

The entry is located at Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Mobility Center, double-click "Turn off Windows Mobility Center", click Disable and save.

• Registry

You will need to modify the DWORD NoMobilityCenter to blank (1 to disable) under these two directories

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

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\MobilityCenter

After these changes are made, the shortcut is reserved to the WMC and also accessible in the context menu. Open Windows Mobility Center in Windows 10