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

2022-06-23T13:45:17+00:00

Hélio Taylor

I Will do that
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Anonymous

2022-06-23T12:19:20+00:00

Thank you.

Doesn't work for me.

My laptop:

HP Envy 360 15"

I7, 12 Mb.
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Anonymous

2022-06-23T00:46:14+00:00

Interesting and Thanks. Will save this for future use.

I have a Surface 8 and only the "DeviceConvertible"=dword:00000000 is needed in my case.
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Anonymous

2022-06-21T16:06:22+00:00

Yes, for my device, that's the complete set of registry to tweak for it to work.

I'm using a tablet PC. I needed to trick Windows into thinking that it's running on a desktop PC. Resetting cache is also a needed step for some devices.
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Anonymous

2022-06-21T15:56:23+00:00

Hi there!

Why plus to the "DeviceConvertible"=dword:00000000 you need to do the other 3 edits ("TabletMode"=dword:00000000 , "ResetCache"=dword:00000000 and "ResetCacheCount"=dword:00000001) ??

For me the only "DeviceConvertible"=dword:00000000 works. Thank you.
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