- Microsoft could allow you to return the Copilot key to the old “menu” key
- This key evokes a context menu (such as right click with your mouse)
- This is useful in certain scenarios, but many will want a more complete range of customization options for the key
Microsoft could soon give people whose keyboard has a touch of co -pilot the possibility of redefining it so that a press opens the key to place a context menu instead.
It is according to a well -known source of rumors and events related to Windows, Phantomofoth on X (formerly Twitter).
Future Builds will add the option to remedy the Copilot key to open a context menu.February 9, 2025
Do not forget that it is just an assertion that Microsoft could do so in future Windows 11 test versions – probably based on indices found by the leak which digs in current overview versions – and this may not not happen.
If none of these elements makes sense, and you scratch your head on what is potentially happening with the keyboard here, let’s put ourselves a little and explain.
What is really going on (or could be) is that Microsoft allows choice to return to the Copilot key to what it was before (on many laptop keyboards, anyway).
This old key that the Copilot button replaced was known as the “Menu” key and generally carries an icon with three horizontal lines (perhaps with a pointer too), indicating that it is used to invoke the aforementioned contextual menu .
This context menu is the same as you invoke by clicking with the right button with your mouse, to give you options that are common actions in a given context (with files for example, you can click to see the properties, or rename , etc.).
Analysis: more choices is good, but …
Why would you like this old “menu” key that reveals the contextual menu-click right, anyway? Well, it can be useful in situations where you do not have any mouse (this is why this key is more often found on laptops) and therefore cannot necessarily click on the right button to raise said menu. Microsoft had this key on its surface devices, for example, between the “Alt” key on the right and the arrow keys – but now it’s the Copilot key.
Not if you modify it by remaping, however – and if you find the shortcut of the contextual menu more useful than the co -pilot key, well, apparently, you could have your wish expressed later this year. Although with the warnings on this subject, it is not even in testing yet.
Microsoft presented the possibility of remaping the Copilot key to launch an application in Overview (at the end of last year). This decision has since arrived under Windows 11, and you can also change the key to invoke a search, but the remapping on an application comes with a notable (and boring) socket that said software must be a MSIX packaged application (little applications are). This has been implemented in this way for security reasons, in case you ask yourself the question.
In any case, a contextual menu option would be at least something, but I hope that Microsoft will finally give us much more freedom to redefine the Co -Pilot Application key at all, not just a limited selection). At least this seems to be steps in the right direction for better personalization, if only small progress.
Microsoft certainly seems to abandon the idea that the Copilot key represented the most important introduction to the keyboard on Windows PCs from the Windows key itself.
Via XDA developers
