Item checkboxes cannot be disabled on windows 11

Anonymous
2021-10-11T01:44:28+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-17T00:28:12+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)

    This did not work for me unfortunately. Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5-15IIL05.

    Any other ideas or solutions?

    What I miss most is the ability to press shift or ctrl, and choose multiple items. With checkboxes, I have to choose each one seperately. How is this efficient, Microsoft?

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-17T00:36:22+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)

    This did not work for me unfortunately. Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5-15IIL05.

    Did you reboot after making the change?

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-17T01:21:42+00:00

    On my Surface Pro 8 the checkboxes went away immediately, without the need of restarting Windows.

    Only thing that I did is to just close folder explorer and re-open it.

    ;)

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-17T15:54:34+00:00

    ... and not me. I have a Lenovo Yoga C740 14 "2-in-1. But this helped me.

    Services: Turn this on: YMC -> Running-> Automatic

    C: \ Windows \ System32 \ YMC.exe

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-17T16:06:12+00:00

    YMC.exe is an executable exe file which belongs to the Lenovo Yoga Mode Control process which comes along with the Lenovo Yoga Mode ControlSoftware developed by Lenovo software developer.

    Maybe that's why it is needed for your Yoga.

    On Surface Pro 8 it was only needed to disable that registry variable.

    I am still tho wondering the real differences in having the "Microsoft Surface 2in1 features" enabled and disabled.

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