- Microsoft could let you turn the Copilot key back to the old ‘menu’ key
- This key brings a context menu (as right -click the mouse) with the mouse)
- This is useful in some scenarios but many will have a fuller selection of customization options for the key
Microsoft could soon give people whose keyboard has a copilot key the opportunity to redefine it, so a press of the key opens a context menu instead.
This is, according to a well-known source of Windows-related rumors and events, Phantomofearth on X (formerly Twitter).
Future Builds adds the opportunity to remodel the Copilot key to open a context menu.9 February 2025
Remember, this is just a claim that Microsoft may do this in future test buildings of Windows 11 – presumably based on clues found by the leak digging around the current preview -Builds – and it still doesn’t happen.
If none of the above makes a lot of sense and you scrape upside down in terms of what is potentially going on with the keyboard here, let’s rewind a little and explain.
What actually happens (or could be) is Microsoft allows the choice to return the Copilot key to what it was in the past (on many portable keyboards, anyway).
This old key, which the Copilot button replaced, was known as the ‘Menu’ key, and it typically carries an icon with three horizontal lines (perhaps also with a marker), indicating that it is used to convene the aforementioned context menu.
This context menu is the same that you invoke by right -clicking with your mouse to give you options that are common actions in a given context (for example, files, you can click to view properties or rename, etc.
Analysis: More choice is good, but …
Why do you want this old ‘menu’ key that still brings the right -click on context menu back? It may well be useful in situations where you do not have a mouse (which is why this key is more often found on laptops) and therefore you may not necessarily right -click to bring up the mentioned menu. Microsoft used to have this key on its surface units, for example between the ‘everything’ key on the right and the arrow keys -but now it is the copilot key.
Not if you change it back by renaming and if you find the context menu road more useful than the Copilot key, yes, apparently you may have your wish awarded later in the year. Although with the above warnings that this is not even in testing yet.
Microsoft introduced the opportunity to remodel the Copilot key to start an app in Preview (late last year). This trait has since arrived in Windows 11 and you can also change the key to calling on a search, but conversion to an app comes with a remarkable (and annoying) catch that mentioned software should be an MSIX-packed application (not many apps is). This has been implemented in the way for security reasons, in case you were speculating.
Under all app not a limited choice at all). At least these seem to be steps in the right direction for better adjustment if only small steps.
Microsoft certainly seems to abandon the notion that the Copilot key represented the most important introduction to the keyboard on Windows PCS since the Windows key itself.
Via XDA developers
