Item checkboxes cannot be disabled on windows 11

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I recently upgraded to windows 11 on my laptop, and I can't disable item check boxes in the file explorer.

Disabling item check boxes works on the desktop, but not in the file explorer (see attached screenshot).

I have tried disabling "Use check boxes to select items" in folder settings, and changing the value of HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\AutoCheckSelect to 0 in the registry, both of which do not solve the problem.

Any help would be much appreciated :)

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Anonymous

2022-06-20T13:04:49+00:00
This worked for me. Save this code to a text file and save as a ".reg" file. Install.

For changes to take effect, go to Task Manager and restart File Explorer.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell] "TabletMode"=dword:00000000 "DeviceConvertible"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\StateStore] "ResetCache"=dword:00000000 "ResetCacheCount"=dword:00000001
Lenovo Yoga 720-15IKB. This also worked for me. Restarting Windows Explorer from the Task Manager was the necessary added step.
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Anonymous

This worked for me. Save this code to a text file and save as a ".reg" file. Install.

For changes to take effect, go to Task Manager and restart File Explorer.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell]
"TabletMode"=dword:00000000
"DeviceConvertible"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\StateStore]
"ResetCache"=dword:00000000
"ResetCacheCount"=dword:00000001

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Anonymous

2022-05-21T21:52:11+00:00

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell

DeviceConvertible 1 set to 0

it works for Lenovo Yoga 720 80x7 (build 22000.527)

I didn't have this value since my laptop isn't a convertible/touch input, but I added it in as a DWORD value (set to 0), restarted Explorer.exe, and this totally fixed it. (Razer Blade 15)
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Anonymous

2022-12-02T14:11:38+00:00

I have the same problem and NONE of the proposed solution work for me on my Lenovo X1 Tablet (gen2) that came preloaded with Win11.

Maybe it's because it's a tablet by default, there is some other place deep down in the registry where the ability to disable this annoying checkbox behavior is blocked.

It shows up in the view settings as off, and 'DeviceConvertible', 'TabletMode', and 'TabletPostureFreCompleted' are all set to 0 in 'Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell`

This is just one of several stupid things I've noticed about Win11 so far, but so far I haven't found a fix or workaround for this ****. So I'm hoping somebody out there has found another kill switch to get my computer to work they way I want it to (not the way the jerks at MS assume I should).
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Anonymous

2021-12-14T03:38:36+00:00

Eh, nope, my device was deemed compatible by MS own system check tool and after upgrading to Windows 11 I'm having this problem. It's a Chuwi Ubook X Tablet PC but from what I can tell, others are having same issue in different brands, like Lenovo Yoga devices, so it's a Windows problem.

My desktop PC is an assembled Ryzen 3 2200G CPU, which is listed as incompatible and I don't have any problem there, so your argument is bogus.
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