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Copilot key
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 10 threads.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Copilot key can't be remapped to Right-Ctrl or act as a modifierUnreviewed
20252026- Accidental presses open the Copilot window, which must be manually closed; key can't be set to do nothing2026-09-28
- Copilot key sends Shift+Win+F23 combo, making it hard to rebind2026-09-26
- Right Ctrl-position key now opens Copilot, breaking long-held shortcut habits2026-09-25
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 10 complaints
- Accidental presses open the Copilot window, which must be manually closed; key can't be set to do nothing2026-09-28
- Copilot key sends Shift+Win+F23 combo, making it hard to rebind2026-09-26
- Right Ctrl-position key now opens Copilot, breaking long-held shortcut habits2026-09-25
- Pressing the key opens a confusing Settings option or the Windows app store instead of a useful action2026-07-26
- Accidental presses open Copilot and interrupt typing, and the key can't be turned off2026-05-03
- Copilot key can't be fully remapped back to Right-Ctrl and doesn't act as a modifier2026-01-09
- Large key is easy to hit by accident, and pressing it abruptly takes over the screen2025-11-30
- Copilot key does nothing except open a preferences dialog with confusing options2025-11-06
- Copilot key no longer acts as a modifier, so it can't be fully remapped back to Ctrl2025-10-05
- Took a while to figure out how to make the key open the correct app2025-09-15