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I call BS on this nonsense. I still have a useless copilot key on my keyboard. But we'll see. I'm not going back.

There is a setting to control which app that key opens.

That is a hedge for people like us.

Power of the default says that button will needlessly over exploit a ton of users.

But you cannot change it to behave as a single key (i.e. Ctrl), only what the shortcut associated to it does (Shift+Win+F23 IIRC).

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/35808

Yes. As you say it maps to a key sequence, not a scancode. Additionally, it maps as a rapid key-down sequence followed immediately by key-up, so it cannot be remapped to a modifier key, such as right control (which it often takes over from on laptops).

There are ways, which involve using a software trap to capture it and then emit right control for a set period of time, but that's a workaround rather than a real fix.

https://github.com/m-bartlett/remap-copilot has a good writeup in the README

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