Swapping ` and \ keys on Windows XP

This is just some info that I no longer need but want to archive somewhere anyway because it took me a while to work out how to do it.

On my current Toshiba laptop, the ` (backtick) and \ (backslash) keys have swapped round compared to my previous Toshiba. At first I couldn’t get used to this, so I just swapped the keys round under Windows XP using:

REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout" /v "Scancode Map" /t REG_BINARY /d 000000000000000000000003290056005600290000000000

I no longer need this for two reasons:

  1. I got used to the new layout.
  2. I rarely use Windows these days.
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