Hello Microsoft Community, I recently purchased a new laptop with an inbuilt Copilot key , which replaces the traditional Right Ctrl key. This key, as I understand, sends the shortcut Win + Shift + F23 . While it works well to activate the default Copilot functionality, I am facing an issue when trying to use it for standard keyboard shortcuts, such as Ctrl + A or Ctrl + C . I am looking for a way to achieve the following behavior: Single Press: When I press and release the Copilot key alone, it should trigger the default Copilot action. Combination Press: When the Copilot key is held down and used with another key (e.g., Copilot + A), it should function as the Right Ctrl key to allow traditional shortcuts. An alternative could be to make the Copilot key work like the Fn key . For example: When pressed alone, it triggers the Copilot functionality. When combined with other keys, it acts as Right Ctrl, enabling keyboard shortcuts seamlessly. I would appreciate any advice on achieving this through settings, registry edits, or third-party tools. If this functionality isn’t currently possible, I hope it can be considered for a future Windows update. Thank you for your help!

Hi all - I was able to finally get this to work in PowerToys. Try this. It is working for me now. Download PowerToys from Microsoft Store - https://aka.ms/getPowertoys) In Keyboard Manager, click Enable Keyboard Manager to "On" SKIP "Remap a key" (make sure you delete any previous single-key remap you made for F23). This needs to be removed. The copilot key is not actually the F23 key. It is a shortcut of Win (Left) + Shift (Left) + F23 In "Remap shortcuts", click the pencil for Select and press the copilot key - it should populate Win (Left) + Shift (Left) + F23. Click OK In the To side, select Action = Send Key/Shortcut. For Shortcut click the dropdown and scroll to Ctrl. It will populate a second dropdown > scroll all the way to the top on that and select "None" Click OK in top right. ![](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/d194167e-e2a0-4063-ae79-7e1e519d0c31?platform=QnA"https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/271a05e9-bf4a-4336-90ec-a970c8e204e2?platform=QnA" title="filestore.community.support.microsoft.com" rel="ugc nofollow">![](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/271a05e9-bf4a-4336-90ec-a970c8e204e2?platform=QnA

Powertoys is not a solution to this issue. Powertoys will not allow you to only map CTRL. It requires you to map a shortcut like CTRL + <some other key>. I've tried it every way possible in powertoys and it doesn't work for this problem. I've been looking for an answer to OPs question for weeks. Respondents continue to post solutions that they clearly have not tested to be accurate. If you have a solution that you have tested, I'd love to see it. Thank you

Hello Bhavya Gohil and welcome to the Microsoft Community! Thank you very much for your suggestions and feedback, it's very valuable to us and other users! Thank you for contributing to the forum! Let me answer your question and find some possible solutions for you. You can download a program called “powertoys”, just search for it in the app store. This is Microsoft's own program, it is very clean and easy to use, no advertisements, and has a lot of features. You can try to download the program and open it, there is a “mapping keyboard” or just “mapping”. Here you can map a key or a key combination to another key, so that you can use it in the way you want. For example, I can map the windows key to shift. This way, if you click on shift, it will open the start menu. You can also map the right ctrl key to a different key. I hope you understand my example. I hope this program solves your problem! Kirito|Microsoft Community Support Specialist

This workaround using the remap function in PowerToys does not work on my new HP EliteBook 860 G11 (Win 11 Pro). Starting PowerToys in Admin mode does not help either. I rely heavily on the right ctrl key in my daily work, let it be in the browser or a code editor and I'm sure a lot of other users do so as well. I just can't understand why Microsoft chose this key to replace it with this new "marketing" key. Maybe the product managers, designers and the engineers should start talking to each other again.

This solution for making the copilot or ai key work as right control actually works! THANK YOU Caleb for sharing your solution and with such clear instructions. Note: the only issue I've found is the "ai" (now right ctrl) and left-shift don't work in tandem. I can live with this limitation but let me know if anyone finds a solution. I tried playing around with reassigning ai key to ctrl or ctrl(right) or ctrl(left) but it does not fix this one small issue.

How can I customize the Copilot key to also function as Right Ctrl for key combinations?

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Hello Microsoft Community,

I recently purchased a new laptop with an inbuilt Copilot key, which replaces the traditional Right Ctrl key. This key, as I understand, sends the shortcut Win + Shift + F23. While it works well to activate the default Copilot functionality, I am facing an issue when trying to use it for standard keyboard shortcuts, such as Ctrl + A or Ctrl + C.

I am looking for a way to achieve the following behavior:

Single Press: When I press and release the Copilot key alone, it should trigger the default Copilot action.
Combination Press: When the Copilot key is held down and used with another key (e.g., Copilot + A), it should function as the Right Ctrl key to allow traditional shortcuts.

An alternative could be to make the Copilot key work like the Fn key. For example:

When pressed alone, it triggers the Copilot functionality.
When combined with other keys, it acts as Right Ctrl, enabling keyboard shortcuts seamlessly.

I would appreciate any advice on achieving this through settings, registry edits, or third-party tools. If this functionality isn’t currently possible, I hope it can be considered for a future Windows update.

Thank you for your help!

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