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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
    2025-02-04T11:14:11+00:00

    The suggested shortcut remapping only worked in some programs and not others for me. But I think I found a solution.

    Current PowerToys version as of this post is v0.88.0. I run it as administrator, though I'm not sure if that's essential.

    The trick was using both Remap a Key and Remap a shortcut:

    1. use Remap a Key: map F23 to Win (Left) Shift (Left) F23
    2. use Remap a shortcut: to map Win (Left) Shift (Left) F23 to Ctrl (or whatever you want it to be)

    The saved result in Power Toys looks like this

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-04T14:05:41+00:00

    Hi Evan - thanks for trying! I have the same version and also running as admin and my screen looks identical to your screenshot, but I still can't use the copilot key for other combo shortcuts. ctrl+enter to send email, ctrl+1...9 for quick steps in outlook, ctrl+- or ctrl++ in excel for adding/removing columns/rows. This is just a smattering of what I consistently use my right ctrl for.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-14T16:49:32+00:00

    Thank you for being better support than Microsoft, Window 11 is garbage, full of stuff we don't want.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-25T14:17:36+00:00

    In case this helps anyone else: I wanted the Copilot shortcut key on my Surface Pro keyboard to be re-mapped to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, not the basic Windows one. I couldn't find a shortcut or key combination to launch that app, so I pinned it to the taskbar in position #1 (next to the start button) so that I can open it with the Win+1 key combination. Then I used PowerToys as above to re-map the copilot key to Win+1.

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