How to get rid of useless keys in Windows and turn them into something helpful

In the era of laptops and tenkeyless keyboards, many of us are living with fewer keys than we had years ago. But even on a small keyboard, you'll find keys that you just don't need. 

The Copilot key on many new laptops is a great example of hype over help. And in 2025, how many of us still use Scroll Lock, type with Caps Lock on, or hit the Insert key to change into overwrite mode? For every waste of keyboard space, there's an opportunity to optimize.

In Windows 10 or 11, it's easy to remap keys so that they become other keys you don't already have. For example, I'm not a spreadsheet maven, so don't really make much use of the number pad. So instead, I've turned the humble set of numbers and operators into a media control center, a series ...