Mouse Button Disabler
Switch off a mouse button you keep pressing by accident — including the two side buttons under your thumb.
Click a button on the mouse and it stops working.
See it in action
About Mouse Button Disabler
A mouse button you keep catching by accident is a small thing that goes wrong all day. The thumb button that sends the browser back and loses the form you were filling in. The middle button that opens twenty tabs. The right button under a palm that rests on it.
Mouse Button Disabler switches them off.
Pick it on the mouse
The app is a drawing of a mouse. Click a button on it and that button stops working. Click it again and it comes back. Left, right, middle, and Back and Forward on the thumb side — all five are on the drawing, at the size and place they are on the mouse in your hand.
The side buttons
Back and Forward are the two people ask for most, and the previous version had no way to reach them. They are here.
And the wheel
Scrolling is not a button and does not appear on the drawing, but it can be switched off too, along with tilting the wheel left and right on the mice that do it.
Everywhere in Windows
A button that is off is off in the browser, the editor and the game. Nothing is changed in the driver, nothing is written to the registry, and nothing needs a reboot to undo — switch the app off and the mouse is exactly as it was.
The way back is a key
This is an app whose whole purpose is a pointer that cannot click, so the way out is never a click. Record a keyboard shortcut and it switches everything on and off from inside any window. Failing that, press Escape five times and every button comes back.
If you switch off the left button, the app says so first, because that is the button you would need to undo it with.
On from sign-in
Turn on Start with Windows and Switch the buttons off as soon as the app opens, and a button you never want is gone from the moment you sign in. Start with Windows goes through the Startup page in Windows Settings, so you can see it there and switch it off there.
Upgrading
The buttons you had disabled in the previous version are carried across the first time it opens.
No account needed. No sign-in needed. No ads, and nothing held back behind an unlock.
Built for Windows 11, and at home on Windows 10.
Features
- All five buttons on a drawing of the mouse — left, right, middle, and the two on the thumb side
- Back and Forward can be switched off, which the previous version could not do
- Scrolling and wheel-tilt can be switched off as well
- Click the button on the drawing to switch it off, and click it again to put it back
- Switched off everywhere in Windows, not just in one application
- The shortcut is a key, because a pointer that cannot click cannot reach a button
- Escape five times puts every button back, from any window
- Says so before you take the left button away, since that is the one you click with
- Switch the buttons off the moment the app opens
- Starts with Windows through the Startup page, so your buttons are off from sign-in
- Sits in the tray, and the tray icon switches off without opening the window
- Your disabled buttons from the old version carry over on first launch
- No account needed, no ads, and nothing leaves your PC unless you turn on backup
Details
- Works on
- Windows 10 (1809 or later) and Windows 11
- Download
- About 2.6 MB
- Version
- 2.0.5, updated October 2026
- First released
- April 2023
- Price
- $2.49 once. No subscription.
- Category
- Utilities & tools
What's new in 2.0.5
- Back and Forward — the two under your thumb — can be switched off. This is the one thing both reviews of the old version asked for
- Scrolling and wheel-tilt too, alongside left, right and middle
- Pick the button on a drawing of a mouse rather than from a list of names
- The shortcut that brings everything back is a key, not a click: the point of this app is a pointer that cannot click
- Escape five times puts every button back, from any window
- It sits in the tray, starts with Windows, and opens again when it is already running
- Your disabled buttons carry over on first launch
Questions
Anything else? Ask us
Which versions of Windows does it run on?
Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) and Windows 11.
Is it a subscription?
No. Mouse Button Disabler is a one-time purchase of $2.49, and updates are included.
How do I get it?
EvlarSoft apps are moving to direct downloads from this site. Ask to be notified and we will email you as soon as Mouse Button Disabler is ready to download.
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