- Windows 11 could again be honored with the shortcut “Windows + C key” to invoke the co -pilot
- This keyboard shortcut was removed from Windows 11 last year for reasons that it is difficult to understand, frankly
- Microsoft now seems to have had a second reflection on the banishment of the shortcut – or it is a rumor suggests
There are potentially good news for Windows 11 users who are missing the old keyboard shortcut which invoked the co -pilot, because early advice has been deleted that this feature could be restored by Microsoft.
The shortcut of the keyboard in question – which is “Windows Key + C” – has essentially replaced those who have no dedicated co -pilot key (as we see on Copilot + PC as the new Dell XPS 13) to invoke the AI assistant.
According to Phantomofearth on X, a regular source of gossip and leaks for Windows, Microsoft “experiment with the radiation” of this keyboard combination.
Microsoft is experimenting to bring back the Windows + C keyboard keyboard. It will make the same action as the Copilot key, so it can be personalized in the settings. “Choose what is going on when you press the co -pilot key or the Windows + C logo key”March 23, 2025
I guess Phantomofearth discovered clues in a recent preview version of Windows 11 to indicate that this process is underway, but they do not show it clearly.
As indicated, just like the Copilot key, you can personalize the function of this shortcut in the settings. So, if you don’t use the AI assistant, you can get Windows + C to perform a different action more useful in your particular way of working.
Analysis: erased to land on your keyboard (after being in a maintenance model for a long time)
There is actually a background that you may not know. There are a lot of moons, Windows + C was used to shoot Cortana, but when this AI assistant was abandoned (in 2023), Microsoft transferred the shortcut to Copilot.
Then, in what was a confusing turn at the time, in the middle of 2024, the keyboard shortcut was decoupled from Copilot – the reasons for that being better known to Microsoft. As I observed at the time, more cynical could suggest that this gave additional value to the convenience of this dedicated co -pilot key, which effectively makes a more (light) point of sale for Copilot +laptops, at least in theory.
(I should also note that Windows recently stressed that Microsoft argued that using the Windows key in conjunction with “digital position for Copilot has pinned in your taskbar” is “an excellent way to open the co -pilot”, rather than Windows + C. Still, which is a damage to have another important use for doing it?
In any case, whatever the reasoning at the time, Microsoft will reverse the course now – and it’s time. Well, I say that in full knowledge that no chicken AI should be counted for the moment – not before we really saw this keyboard shortcut officially reappear in tests as a way to raise the Copilot application. For the moment, this remains just an index that Microsoft is busy reintroducing this small potentially useful characteristic.
Of course, even if you do not use a co -pilot in Windows 11, you will probably appreciate the possibility of redefining the shortcut towards something else, rather than the sleeping combo. Although I assume that this capacity could be responsible for the same limitations as remapping the co -pilot key dedicated to another function, namely that only certain applications can be linked to it – but who knows, maybe this will not be the case.
