News How to Add a Dedicated Copilot Key to any Windows 11 or 10 PC, No New Keyboard Required

[Admin]

With a little effort, you can turn any key into the copilot key.

How to Add a Dedicated Copilot Key to any Windows 11 or 10 PC, No New Keyboard Required : Read more

 

[Diabl0]

More important advice will be, how to remove Copilot from the future Copilot key

 

[Findecanor]

Windows + C was previously the shortcut to launch Cortana, so it was obvious.
There have previously been keyboards with a "Cortana key" that produced Windows + C.

The more important question however: What kind of code do the new dedicated Copilot keys produce, and how can it be remapped to something useful?

I've seen images of a couple laptops with Copilot keys that had the Menu "hamburger" icon as sublegend. That give me hope that it could be remapped to Menu in BIOS, at least.

 

[JeffreyP55]

With a little effort, you can turn any key into the copilot key.

How to Add a Dedicated Copilot Key to any Windows 11 or 10 PC, No New Keyboard Required : Read more

Copilot is just relabeled Bing Chat. Tried it and got a bazillion trackers. Not using that garbage ever!

 

[apiltch]

Windows + C was previously the shortcut to launch Cortana, so it was obvious.
There have previously been keyboards with a "Cortana key" that produced Windows + C.

The more important question however: What kind of code do the new dedicated Copilot keys produce, and how can it be remapped to something useful?

I've seen images of a couple laptops with Copilot keys that had the Menu "hamburger" icon as sublegend. That give me hope that it could be remapped to Menu in BIOS, at least.

I'm with you in that, if I got a laptop with a Copilot key on it, I'd remap the key to be something else. I'd like to know what the keycode is, but unless it is actually the menu key, I don't think anyone knows. One of these days, we'll get a laptop with it to review and I'll be doing the opposite how-to, how-to remap your Copilot key.

Some people may actually want this key which is why I did a story on how to make it happen.

 

[apiltch]

Copilot is just relabeled Bing Chat. Tried it and got a bazillion trackers. Not using that garbage ever!

I agree with you. Some people like it so I wrote an article on how to remap a key to it. But I'm not a fan of the feature and I think it's way overhyped.

 

[apiltch]

More important advice will be, how to remove Copilot from the future Copilot key

And, as soon as we get in a laptop that has the key on it, I'll be doing that article.

 

[kep55]

With a little effort, you can turn any key into the copilot key.

How to Add a Dedicated Copilot Key to any Windows 11 or 10 PC, No New Keyboard Required : Read more

Why would anyone in their right mind want copilot on their PC, let alone a dedicated key? With mictosoft's records of data scarfing and security holes a flattop could go thru, your just begging for trouble.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

I've used the Copilot feature in Edge a few times and it can be useful for quickly compiling information, assuming it pulls from trustworthy sources (which it cites, thankfully), but is as prone to giving maddeningly unhelpful answers like any voice assistant, and it can't do math to save its life (if you want a laugh ask it to make up some equations). In its current state it doesn't deserve its own dedicated button, at least until you can blacklist certain sources you know to be unhelpful/untrue.

 

[DavidC1]

I've used the Copilot feature in Edge a few times and it can be useful for quickly compiling information, assuming it pulls from trustworthy sources (which it cites, thankfully), but is as prone to giving maddeningly unhelpful answers like any voice assistant, and it can't do math to save its life (if you want a laugh ask it to make up some equations). In its current state it doesn't deserve its own dedicated button, at least until you can blacklist certain sources you know to be unhelpful/untrue.

Yea and if you ask other AI services for making an image, it screws up detail. Like faces of a crowd look nightmarish.

It sucks at precision. See the reason it's passable in graphics design is because pictures don't always need that kind of detail as long as you got the basics right. Even in the example above you can reiterate it.

They are NEVER going to reach the point of singularity. You can't simulate something you don't understand(the human brain).

We're surely in the bubble now, but not sure when it'll pop. Seemingly many bubbles in various parts of the economy, with lifespan of the bubbles way past it's expiry date. I wonder if they'll crash simultaneously when the US economy goes?