Windows 10: Open Windows Mobility Center in Windows 10

How to: Open Windows Mobility Center in Windows 10

How to Open Windows Mobility Center in Windows 10


The Windows Mobility Center (mblctr.exe) provides quick access to the most commonly used settings for mobile devices, such as brightness, volume, battery status, screen orientation, external display, Sync Center settings, and presentation settings.

By default, the Windows Mobility Center is only available on a Windows PC (ex: laptop or tablet) with a battery. The Windows Mobility Center is not available on a desktop PC by default unless enabled or the PC is connected to a UPS.

This tutorial will show you different ways on how to open the Windows Mobility Center in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Open Windows Mobility Center using Keyboard Shortcut
• Option Two: Open Windows Mobility Center in Win+X Quick Link Menu
• Option Three: Open Windows Mobility Center from Power icon on Taskbar
• Option Four: Open Windows Mobility Center in Control Panel
• Option Five: Open Windows Mobility Center from Search
• Option Six: Open Windows Mobility Center in Run

EXAMPLE: Windows Mobility Center









OPTION ONE [/i] Open Windows Mobility Center using Keyboard Shortcut
1. Press the Win+X keys and press the B key.





OPTION TWO [/i] Open Windows Mobility Center in Win+X Quick Link Menu
1. Open the Win+X Quick Link menu, and click/tap on Mobility Center. (see screenshot below)









OPTION THREE [/i] Open Windows Mobility Center from Power icon on Taskbar
1. Right click or press and hold the Power system icon on the taskbar notification area, and click/tap on Windows Mobility Center. (see screenshot below)









OPTION FOUR [/i] Open Windows Mobility Center in Control Panel
1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Windows Mobility Center icon. (see screenshot below)









OPTION FIVE [/i] Open Windows Mobility Center from Search
1. Open Search (Win+S), type Mobility, and click/tap on Windows Mobility Center in the search results. (see screenshot below)









OPTION SIX [/i] Open Windows Mobility Center in Run
1. Open Run (Win+R), type mbclrt, and press Enter or click/tap on OK . (see screenshot below)





That's it,
Shawn


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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

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Turned Windows 10 Mobile Hotspot "ON" but not visible on devices..

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Windows Media Center Live TV Help

Hi

go here - http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hvr1250.html select "Windows Media Center install" tab

look at - Setting up your TV tuner in Windows 7 Media Center - select download (will open a pdf with screen by screen instructions)
"Download
Here is a screen by screen view of the setup of Windows Media Center. It was based on the WinTV-HVR-1600, but the setup with other WinTV-HVR products will be similar."

Follow the guide stage by stage

let the TPU community know at what "step" Media Center gets stuck at Example: step 1, step 2

nb: It may be to do with your zip code and or post code not being entered

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Mobile Device Center can not run on Windows 10 OS

Hi Zhiyong,

We appreciate you for being part of Windows 10.

I understand that you issues with
Mobile Device Center on Windows 10.

I suggest you to install the Mobile device center in the compatibility mode and check if it helps. Follow the below steps.

• 
  Right-click on the setup file of the Mobile device center and select Run as Administartor.
  
• 
  Enter the Admin credentials if prompted.
  
  If the issue still persists, then check the program compatibility. Follow the below steps.
  

• 
  Right-click on the setup file of the Mobile device center and select
  Troubleshoot Compatibility.
  
• 
  Follow the onscreen instructions to run the troubleshoot compatibility.
  

I suggest you to refer the below thread and check if it help to resolve the issue.

Windows Mobile Device Center Compatibility with Windows 10

Windows Mobile Device Center Compatibility with Windows 10

Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

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Windows Mobile Device Center Compatibility with Windows 10

Since the people who work/support for Microsoft are to ignorant to figure it out the first suggestion worked for me after a clean install.

Here is the most current suggest workflows to fix the Windows 10 and Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) Connection Issues



New Windows 10 machine

• Install the latest 1709 update from Microsoft
• Plug in the Windows Mobile Device (Geos, TCS3, etc)
• Let it install the drivers and WMDC
  • If the device will not connect, then run this
    Registry exe as an Admin
  • If that doesn’t work, then try this suggestions
    https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/93efdeb2-b417-476a-9252-689375163c4d/unable-to-install-windows-mobile-device-center-on-windows-10-v-1709?forum=windowsmobiledev

Windows 10 with existing installation of WMDC

• Uninstall Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC)
• Install the latest 1709 update from Microsoft
• Plug in the Windows Mobile Device (Geos, TCS3, etc)
• Let it install the drivers and WMDC
  • If the device will not connect, then run this
    Registry exe as an Admin
  • If that doesn’t work, then try this suggestions
    https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/93efdeb2-b417-476a-9252-689375163c4d/unable-to-install-windows-mobile-device-center-on-windows-10-v-1709?forum=windowsmobiledev