Microsoft accepts defeat on the Windows 11 Copilot key with a "Do nothing" switch, but PCs still ship with it

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Microsoft accepts defeat on the Windows 11 Copilot key with a "Do nothing" switch, but PCs still ship with it

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/24/microsoft-accepts-defeat-on-the-windows-11-copilot-key-with-a-do-nothing-switch-but-pcs-still-ship-with-it/Open link View original on lemmy.today

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ThrowawayOnLemmy

lemmy.world

How about turning it into a macro that I can set?

Microsoft: if it can't be Copilot, you get nothing.

rockSlayer reply

lemmy.blahaj.zone

MartianSands reply

sh.itjust.works

That's nonsense. To do what it does, it sends a signal to the operating system. It's entirely within the operating system's power to do something different when it gets that signal

rockSlayer reply

lemmy.blahaj.zone

I went searching for the article I read after posting my comment. Either I misread a headline, or misremembered details. Regardless, I was plain wrong and deleted my comment

MartianSands reply

sh.itjust.works

You probably saw something which said the key can't be remapped, which is likely to be true but only because windows won't let you, rather than being any kind of technical problem

Björn reply

swg-empire.de

Supposedly the key sends weird signals that make it harder to use like any other key. Where a normal key would send KeyDown when pressed and KeyUp when released it sends a bunch of KeyDown and KeyUp when pressed and nothing when it's released.

Zachariah

lemmy.world

I want my context menu key back. Without having to press fn. Sure, usually you can right click, but there are enough times where the key is a better option, and you don’t have to take your hands off the keyboard to use it.

toynbee reply

piefed.social

Shift+F10 can probably be mapped to whatever you want (except, apparently, the key referenced in this post).