Devices Turn On or Off Mouse ClickLock in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Mouse ClickLock and change the ClickLockTime for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

ClickLock enables you to highlight or drag items without holding down the mouse button.

When ClickLock is turned on, you would briefly press the primary mouse button on an item until the click is "locked". You can now highlight or drag the item without having to hold down the mouse button. To release, you would press the primary mouse button again.

If needed, you can adjust how long (ClickLockTime) you need to hold down the mouse button before your click is "locked".

Starting with Windows 11 build 26120.3671 (Beta 24H2), build 26200.5518 (Dev), and build 27842.1000 (Canary), as part of Microsoft's ongoing work to improve settings experiences, Microsoft starting to make more mouse related settings available directly under Settings > Accessibility > Mouse and Settings > Accessibility > Mouse pointer and touch without needing to go into Control Panel. This includes the settings for mouse indicator, mouse pointer trails, and further mouse behavior and pointer customization. As part of this work, Microsoft has also added the ability to adjust the amount of time needed to hover over a window to activate it, if you have activated on hover enabled. Finally, Microsoft updated the icon used for Mouse pointer speed in Bluetooth & Devices > Mouse and added an icon to the Enhance mouse pointer precision option.







1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Accessibility on the left side, and click/tap on Mouse on the right side under Interaction. (see screenshot below)



3 Turn on or off (default) Click lock for what you want. (see screenshot below step 4)

4 If you turned on Click lock, adjust the Amount of time mouse button needs to be down to lock slider to what you want. (see screenshot below)


5 You can now close Settings if you like.





1 Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Mouse icon.

2 Click/tap on the Buttons tab. (see screenshots below)

3 Check (on) or uncheck (off - default) Turn on ClickLock for what you want.

This setting is stored in the UserPreferencesMask (REG_BINARY) value in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop registry key. However, the UserPreferencesMask (REG_BINARY) value also includes other settings (ex: Visual Effects) causing it to vary per system.

4 Click/tap on OK.

5 You can now close the Control Panel if you like.







1 Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Mouse icon.

2 In the Buttons tab, click/tap on Settings under ClickLock. (see screenshot below)

The Settings button will be grayed out if Turn on ClickLock is unchecked (off).

3 Adjust the slider for how Short or Long you want to hold down the primary mouse button before your click is "locked", and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

The time range from 200-2200 milliseconds. The default time is 1200 milliseconds shown below.

4 Click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)


5 You can now close the Control Panel if you like.





1 Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe).

2 Navigate to the key below in the left pane of Registry Editor. (see screenshot below)



3 In the right pane of the Desktop key, double click/tap on the ClickLockTime DWORD (REG_DWORD) value to modify it. (see screenshot above)

4 Click/tap on Decimal, type a number between 200 (shorter) to 2200 (longer) for what you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

The default ClickLockTime is 1200.

5 Close Registry Editor when finished.

6 Either sign out and sign in or restart the computer to apply.


That's it,
Shawn Brink