1. emacs -Q 2. Evaluate: (setq w32-lwindow-modifier 'hyper w32-pass-lwindow-to-system nil) (global-set-key (kbd "H-k") 'kill-word) 3. H-k Expected: `kill-word' executed Actual: `k' inserted This fixes the problem: (setq w32-use-fallback-wm-chars-method t) Confirmed on Windows 7 and 8.1. The same configuration worked on Emacs 24.3 and 24.5, respectively. In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2015-08-11 on KAEL Repository revision: 21e1673be3738fb79bd92cf8bd003d86ac51130b Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: `configure --prefix=/z/emacs --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --target=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --with-wide-int --with-jpeg --with-xpm --with-png --with-tiff --with-rsvg --with-xml2 --with-gnutls --with-sound=yes --with-file-notification=yes --without-dbus --without-imagemagick 'CFLAGS=-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -g0 -pipe' 'LDFLAGS=-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ -static -s -Wl,-s'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS Important settings: value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Type C-x 1 to delete the help window. nil hyper Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils cl-extra seq help-fns help-mode easymenu cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote w32notify w32 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 83639 6760) (symbols 56 18868 0) (miscs 48 42 84) (strings 32 14247 4632) (string-bytes 1 387884) (vectors 16 11190) (vector-slots 8 398348 3684) (floats 8 123 300) (intervals 56 260 43) (buffers 976 11))