Got a new laptop for work, of course it has the Copilot key. While Copilot itself is debatably useful, sacrificing the right control key and making it launch an *app* is completely unacceptable imo. If I want to use Copilot I will open it myself, thank you very much!

I first tried remapping it with the Keyboard remapping tool in Microsoft PowerToys (of course that wasn’t going to work). However while it remapped the key (F23) to Ctrl, I could not do any Ctrl+ key combos with it.

Some searching led me to this GitHub issue which proposed a solution using AutoHotkey. Not perfect but it at least it supports combo keys and doesn’t have me accidentally opening the Copilot app. Here’s the AHK script from that issue:

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
#SingleInstance

*<+<#f23:: {
Send("{Blind}{LShift Up}{LWin Up}{RControl Down}")
KeyWait("F23", "U")
Send("{RControl up}")
}

And here’s the AHK script compiled to an .exe : AutoHotkey_Remap-Copilot