- Microsoft could allow you to turn the co -driver key into the old ‘menu’ key
- That key takes a context menu (how to right click with the mouse)
- This is useful in some scenarios, but many will want a more complete range of customization options for the key.
Microsoft could soon give people whose keyboard has a co -pilot key the ability to redefine it to press the key opens a context menu.
This is according to a well -known source of rumors and events related to Windows, Phantomofearth in X (previously Twitter).
Future compilations will add the option to reallocate the Co -Thread key to open a context menu.February 9, 2025
Remember, this is just an affirmation that Microsoft could do this in future Windows 11 test compilations, presumably based on the tracks found by leakage excavation in current preview compilations, and may not happen yet.
If none of the above makes a lot of sense, and you are scratching your head on what is potentially happening with the keyboard here, let us rewind a little and explain.
What is really happening (or could be) is that Microsoft is allowing the option to reverse the co -pilot key to what was previously (on many portable keyboards, anyway).
This old key that the copilot button replaced was known as the ‘Menu’ key and usually carries an icon with three horizontal lines (perhaps with a pointer), which indicates that it is used to call the context menu mentioned above.
That contextual menu is the same as invoked by right clicking with the mouse, to provide options that are common actions in any given context (with files, for example, you can click to see the properties, or rename, etc.).
Analysis: More options is good, but …
Why would you want this old ‘menu’ key that brings to the contextual right click menu, anyway? Well, it can be useful in situations in which you do not have a mouse (that’s why this key is most frequently found in laptops) and, therefore, I can’t necessarily click on the right button to mention said menu. Microsoft used to have this key on its surface devices, for example, between the ‘Alt’ key to the right and the arrow keys, but now it is Copilot’s key.
However, not if you change it by reallocating it, and if you find the most useful context menu shortcut than the Copilot key, well, you could apparently receive your desire at the end of this year. Although with the previous warnings that this is not even in the tests yet.
Microsoft introduced the ability to reallocate the Co -nursing key to start an application in preview (at the end of last year). Since then, this movement has reached Windows 11, and you can also change the key to invoke a search, but reallocation to an application comes with a remarkable (and annoying) capture that said software must be an application full of MSIX (not many applications are). This has been implemented in that way for security reasons, in case you ask.
In any case, a context menu option would at least be something, but I hope Microsoft gives us much more freedom to redefine the co -pilot key to do, well, everything we want (and act as a shortcut for any application at all application not just a limited selection). At least all of these seem to be steps in the right direction for better customization, even if they are only small steps.
Microsoft certainly seems to be renouncing the notion that the Copilot key represented the most important introduction to the keyboard on Windows PC from the Windows key itself.
Through XDA developers
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