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Swap the mouse buttons' behavior and meaning

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You can programmatically swap the meaning of the left and right mouse buttons, to account for your left-handed users. All you need is a call to the SystemParameterInfo API function

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Private Declare Function SystemParametersInfo Lib "user32" Alias _
  "SystemParametersInfoA" (ByVal uAction As Long, ByVal uParam As Long, _
  ByRef lpvParam As Any, ByVal fuWinIni As Long) As Long
Private Const SPI_SETMOUSEBUTTONSWAP = 33

' swap the two mouse buttons
SystemParametersInfo SPI_SETMOUSEBUTTONSWAP, True, ByVal 0&, 0

To restore the regular mouse behavior, you need a second call to the same API function, but passing False in its second argument:

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' restore regular mouse buttons behavior
SystemParametersInfo SPI_SETMOUSEBUTTONSWAP, False, ByVal 0&, 0


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