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

while this technically works to remap the Copilot key to CTRL (Right) or whatever you'd like to remap it to, if you actually remap it to CTRL (Right), you will not be able to use the CTRL+ALT+DEL key combination with this remapped button for some reason (at least not on Lenovo Legion 5i), which is one of the primary benefits of having a right-handed control--being able to do a one-handed CTRL+ALT+DEL. i suspect this has something to do with the Copilot button not being fully remapped, and perhaps some other key combination is preventing CTRL+ALT+DEL from being recognized, or perhaps simply the Copilot button cannot be part of a key combination ever. if anyone has any insight that could help resolve this, it would be super helpful.

From my experiments (on a ASUS ProArt P16), neither the PowerToys Keyboard Manager nor the new "Customize Copilot key on keyboard" implementations are attempting solving the root problem. Looking back in posts above, some people say PowerToys works perfectly on some laptops but not on others. Is somehow the laptop manufacturer implementations affecting the remap abilities?

The problem I see is that both approaches are trying to remap the Copilot key to a specific key "action" whereas we want to remap to a "modifier" function that can later be used in conjunction with another key to form a chord.

In PowerToys, if I map simply to Ctrl (with its secondary action box left blank), it does nothing useful. Lets say in Word pressing the Remapped_Copilot_as_Ctrl_<blank> + B does not do the Ctrl+B action (Bold Text) but simply enters "B". If In PowerToys, remap to Ctrl+B, then in Word simply pressing Copilot alone will do Bold Text.

Similarly, in the new Windows 11 setting to Customize Copilot, can only remap to be a shortcut to open some app. IMHO, so meaningless as dozens of other methods (such as pinning the app to the taskbar or start menu) is just as convenient. Who needs to open one single app so often that need a dedicated key to do it more efficiently?

PowerToys really needs to be updated so that a remap can act as a modifier rather than action. When first box set to Ctrl (or any other modifier function), the second box should have option to <act as pure modifier key> instead of requiring an action item.

Maybe not possible because the original key is physically constructed as an action key (Win+Shift+F23) by certain laptop manufacturers.

Thanks, but I tried this, twice, and it didn't work. Nor did anything severla Microsoft techs tried, incuding re-installing Windows.

I have a Lenovo Yoga 7 2 in 1 and would like to remap the Copilot key to the Menu key (Right Click menu).

The utility may have changed since your excellent post.

I installed Microsoft PowerToys from the Microsoft Store and found Keyboard Manager under Input / Output of the main menu.

I clicked on Remap a Key which brought up a Remap Keys window.

I clicked on the [Select] button which prompted me to select a key. I hit the Copilot key and was told that the key was F23. That's all great, but then I need to select a replacement for which there are two buttons.

The first button has two options. The first option is Send Key/Shortcut which allows me to select from a LONG list of options, but none appear to be the key I'm looking for. I've set it to Undefined so Copilot won't launch every time I accidentally hit it.

Would you be able to tell me what I could select to get it to behave like the Menu (Right Click) key on a regular Windows keyboard?

Thanks for the post. At least I was able to disable the key!