Thank you! It took me 2 hours of wafting through various suggestions that did nothing until I found your post and about 10 seconds to fix the problem. It's frustrating when it clearly says "compact view" but nothing happens when you toggle it.
Turn off tablet mode on windows 11
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Hi guys, I simply need to turn off the Tablet mode. I have found that Windows has removed that setting in the switch to Windows 11.. Ok I nice when things are intuative and so... but I simply need a way to switch it off. So many times it happens that I slightly shake with the laptop and it starts crazily switching between tablet and normal mode... So I can not use the laptop for some time, the keybord keeps disconecting, icons are disappearion, douchpad disabeling... I spend so much time uselesly moving my screen up and down... people around must be thinking that I am an idiot trying to make a fan from my laptop in this heat... Somewhere I found that I can switch off rotation lock... but guess what.. it is disabled and grey in my settings... when I ask for help, the laptop shows me an easy way to switch the tablet mode in the action centre... great job windows... only that the help shows settings for Windows 10.. I have 11.... Any other idea to solve this problem then buying a MAC??
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2025-03-04T00:15:15+00:00 -
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2025-03-04T14:37:04+00:00 Ugh, mine already has a file called ConvertibleSlateMMode. When I switch it to 0, it resets to 1 on restart. Lame
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Anonymous
2025-03-16T16:55:29+00:00 One option on windows 11.
Go to
SETINGS - PERSONALIZATION -TASKBAR BEHAVIORS and uncheck "Optimeze taskbar for touch interactions when this device is used as a tablet"
It works for me.
Jorge Naranjo
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Anonymous
2025-05-02T12:26:18+00:00 Anyway, this worked for me - regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl
add DWORD key named ConvertibleSlateMode
add value 1
No more File Explorer checkboxes, no more virtual keyboard.
You are my hero! I have a Wacom MobileStuido tablet that I prefer to use as a laptop. Under Windows 10, this wasn't a problem. But I finally bit the bullet and installed 11. 11, with no regards to my wishes, decided that since there is a touch screen and no attached keyboard, that CLEARLY I should be using this as a tablet.
Zero regard for the end user's wishes. Thanks, MS...
But thank YOU, Dragan, for restoring the actual functionality of my computer.