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We all know what the right click context menu is in Windows and how it works. At its best, the menu can be a hugely valuable resource to get certain tasks accomplished more quickly than digging through programs and their settings to do the same thing. But what if this menu is getting in your way for some reason and you want to disable it?

Perhaps you or your children are playing games in a browser and keep accidentally right clicking when you don't want to, or you just don't want somebody inexperienced to have access to the quick options of renaming or deleting something on the desktop in case they delete something they shouldn't. Disabling the right click of the mouse might sound like a simple thing, but you can't just press a button in Windows to turn it off without a piece of 3rd party software or going deeper into the system settings.

Here's a selection of 6 solutions to enable you to turn off the right click of the mouse so the context menu isn't called and can't be triggered by accident.

1. Kid Key Lock

We've mentioned Kid Key Lock before about restricting or disabling keyboard and mouse buttons. It can be set up to disable right click, left click, middle click, double click, and the scroll wheel. Open the program, check the required mouse locks boxes, and press OK. The program's tray icon will flash when a locked button is pressed, you can also change the locks from the tray icon Locks sub menu.

Kid key lock

It would have been more useful if the password option could be used to lock the setup options screen in case you want to stop the user from enabling the mouse buttons again. However, that option is only useful when completely locking the keyboard. If you don't want any keyboard restrictions, make sure to move the keyboard locks slider all the way to the left. There is a portable version and also an installer version available.

Download Kid Key Lock | Kid Key Lock Portable

2. MurGee Mouse Disabler 1.0

Mouse Disabler is like a simpler version of Kid Key Lock. It shows the tick box options to disable the left, right, and double clicks with a few others you might find useful such as mouse movements and the scroll wheel. The Disable Keyboard Keys option will turn off the most basic keyboard input.

Murgee mouse disabler

Actions are applied as soon as you tick the box and the program doesn't close to the tray or disappear into the background, but instead simply minimizes to a taskbar icon. Even though Mouse Disabler needs installing you can copy its executable and Helper.dll from Program Files to make it portable or extract with a utility like Universal Extractor. Both files total 86KB in size.

Note that Mouse Disabler versions newer than 1.0 downloaded from the developer website or elsewhere are shareware and require payment. Make sure to download the right version from our link below.

Download Mouse Disabler

3. X-Mouse Button Control

X-Mouse Button Control has been around since about 2005 and it's still actively developed. This tool is quite a powerful option for those looking to change or edit the actions of the mouse buttons and the scroll wheel. Although X-Mouse Button Control can be very advanced with the actions you can perform within the program, just disabling the right mouse click is very easy.

All you have to do is open the main window (use the tray icon), click the drop down box next to "Right Button" and select Disable, then click Apply. Pressing Scroll Lock on your keyboard will disable the actions of X-Mouse Button Control and you'll be able to use right click again. If you want right click to do something else, such as emulate left click, select it from the dozens of options in the same drop down menu.

X mouse button control

Not only can X-Mouse Button Control do the same for other mouse buttons or the scroll wheel, but you can also create profiles that will only work on certain processes or open windows. So, if you only want to disable the right mouse click on a specific program, it's easily possible. X-Mouse Button Control is available as a setup installer or portable version.

Download X-Mouse Button Control

4. BasicMouse

This is a shareware utility called BasicMouse and BasicBoard, which used to be called BabyMouse. It allows you to easily restrict several functions of the computer mouse and keyboard. The right mouse button can be disabled, all buttons can be set to send left-clicks, mouse clicks can be restricted to a particular area of the screen, and etc.

Basicmouse freeware

Recent versions restrict the program to a 30 day trial which costs $9.95 to activate. Older versions limit some of the features to 5 minutes of usage but disabling the right click is free to use. Simply run this older version of the program and press Start. It will sit in the system tray for as long as you like disabling the mouse right click without needing to touch any of the time limited functions.

The downside is it also disables the scroll wheel as well which you might not want. The merge mouse buttons option is limited to 5 minutes, so leave it alone. The .NET Framework 2.0/3.5 is required to be installed for Windows 10 users.

Download BasicMouse Free (Disable Right Click version)

5. Using an AutoHotKey script

AutoHotKey is used for creating scripts and macros and can automate a large number of tasks in Windows if you take a bit of time and patience to learn how it works. In its most basic form, AutoHotKey can disable the mouse right click functionality with just 1 line of code, which is:

RButton:: return

That just tells the script to intercept the right mouse button and then do nothing with it. Although the right click is disabled, you can still Shift right click in Windows or to exit the script. With a bit more creativity you can add other things to the script such as disabling the tray icon, adding a password to turn it on and off, etc.

If you want to try it out, here's a compiled script with just that 1 line.

Download DisableRightMouseClick

6. Disable Right Click Via the Registry

There's a registry entry you can add to disable the mouse right click. This only works on the desktop and Explorer though and doesn't affect any programs. You can also still right click on the task bar and control the tray programs via right click. This obviously isn't the best solution around but it does provide a small level of desktop protection over accidentally doing something via the Explorer context menu.

1. Press Start (or press Win key+R) and type Regedit, then hit Enter. Navigate to the following key in the registry:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

2. Right click on the Explorer key and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.

Registry noviewcontextmenu

3. Give it the name NoViewContextMenu and click OK. Double click the name and set the value data as 1. Press OK. To set it back again simply set this value back to 0 or right click on the NoViewContextMenu entry and delete it. You will need to log off or reboot for any of these changes to take effect.

Noviewcontextmenu value

Adding the registry tweak above will disable the mouse right click for all users on the computer. If you only want to disable for the currently logged in user, you need to navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

For ease of use and to save you going into the registry we have created these keys in easy to run .reg files which simply need to be double clicked on.

Disable Right Click for All Users

Re-enable Right Click for All Users

Disable Right Click for Current User

Re-enable Right Click for Current User