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What is the least invasive way (read: least amount of modification to the OS; or least invasive software or utility) to disable the right-click ability of a pointing device in Windows XP and/or Windows 7?

Edit: apparently people are making silly assumptions and down-voting this question. To clarify on the backdrop -- this is for a Kiosk-like setup, not for personal use.

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If two mouse buttons is one to many for you then you should consider getting a Mac. Anything you do to disable any functionality so intrinsic to XP/W7 WILL be invasive. – typoknig Mar 27 '11 at 9:33
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This is for a kiosk-like setup. Researching different options, including what it takes to disable mouse right-click. This is not for personal use. – DuckMaestro Mar 27 '11 at 10:18
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And if you read my question I'm asking for the "least" invasive way, not a "non"-invasive way. There is a difference in how I've phrased my question than from how you are interpreting it. – DuckMaestro Mar 27 '11 at 11:02
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I'm not sure if there is a simple way to do this across the whole OS (i.e. disable the button completely for every application) but you can at least disable the desktop/Explorer context menus.

  1. Browse to this key in the registry: HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

  2. Change the value of NoViewContextMenu to 1.

If NoViewContextMenu doesn't exist then you can create it. Right click in the right-hand pane, select New, then DWORD Value (on Windows XP) or DWORD (32-bit) Value (on Windows 7).

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From my testing, this only effects windows explorer. Is there a way to disable the right mouse button entirely? – Johnie Karr Dec 7 '11 at 14:26
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I was looking for the same thing. I wanted to disable the right mouse button but I could not find a good software solution. I just physically removed the right mouse button from the circuitboard inside the mouse. It was the quickest and least invasive method I could find.

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