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Remap or disable 'Copilot' chatbot key on new Windows keyboards

Anonymous
2024-06-13T18:03:19+00:00

Recently Microsoft has partnered with manufacturers to add new chatbot keys in place of the old commonly used menu/ right control key.

I've been getting more and more calls from customers of new laptops complaining about this chatbot key and wanting it turned off. This has lead to one ripping the key off, three returning their laptops, and two downloading possibly dangerous third party programs to remap this key.

It appears there is no settings in Windows to make this key usable for anything the customer actually wants it for. It's just begging to be accidentally tapped so the user can get advertisements delivered to them via a chatbot.

So how can we disable/remap this unwelcome key on Windows keyboards?

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    Anonymous
    2024-06-17T12:58:05+00:00

    Hello, Welcome to Microsoft Community.

    Thanks for your feedbackI think you're having trouble with the Copilot key on your keyboard.

    You can use the keyboard-manager feature in Microsoft PowerToys tool to remap or disable the Copilot chatbot key on your Windows keyboard. Here are the steps:

    1. Download and install the Microsoft PowerToys tool from the official Microsoft website.
    2. Open the PowerToys tool and select the "Keyboard Manager" tab.
    3. Click on the "Remap a key" button.
    4. Choose the Copilot chatbot key from the "Physical Key" dropdown menu.
    5. Select the key or function you want to remap the Copilot chatbot key to from the "Mapped To" dropdown menu.
    6. Click "OK" to save the changes.

    If you want to completely disable the Copilot chatbot key, you can remap it to the "Disabled" option.

    You can download the tool from the following link: https://dori-uw-1.kuma-moon.com/windows/powertoys/

    If you are indeed using a Surface product, you can purchase the Surface Pro Signature Keyboard separately to replace the Surface Pro Flex Keyboard.

    If my understanding is wrong, please point it out, so that I can assist you better.

    Lugoo Bei | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-30T18:56:47+00:00

    i tried remapping the copilot key to the control key and its extremely limited in what it can do as the control key, is there any way to fix that?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-30T19:07:19+00:00

    this is ridiculous, the only thing you can change it to is the windows search function!!!!!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-02T22:29:53+00:00

    I could not manage to remap de "Copilot" touch neither with Regedit nor with other solution.
    POWERTOY makes it able to simulate a 'Ctrl' touch, but since we remap a shortcut containing SHIFT inside, we cannot use 'SHIFT + Ctrl' nor any shortcut containing any of the initial shortcut keySo here is my solution :

    I remaped 'AltGr' to 'Ctrl' with Powertoys 'Remap a key', and then remaped 'Copilot' key to 'AltGr' using Powertoys 'remap shortcut'

    It's not as easy as it should since AltGr is not next to the arrows, but it's the best solution I found.

    As for others, on my HP Elitebook, remapping Copilot to Ctrl(right) does not work. Similar to you, I sacrifice(*) AltGr (Alt(right)) and map it to Ctrl(right). I tried to remap Copilot to AltGr as you did, but that leads to AltGr being "constantly pressed".

    (*)On a Swedish keyboard, {}[]@ etc are accessed via AltGr (Alt(right)), so now I have to use Ctrl(left)+Alt(left)+{ etc...

    Removing Ctrl(right) is the most stupid thing Microsoft has done in a long time. So many developers need the Ctrl(right) in so many ways. How could Microsoft miss that???

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-03T22:40:22+00:00

    Thank you Kathryn, your workaround seems to be functioning well using PowerToys v0.81.1 on an ASUS ProArt PA13 running Windows 11 Home. Thank goodness - it was very frustrating to have a marginally useful program pop up every time I used Ctrl-O, Ctrl-P, Ctrl-; or other frequently-used keyboard shortcuts.

    It is ridiculous that ASUS stole the right Ctrl key for CoPilot instead of assigning this MS-required key to a minor location such as F12. Why in the world would they annoy their customers by doing that?

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