On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 19:38:54 +0100, Wolffan wrote:

On 23 Aug 2020, Commander Kinsey wrote
(in article op.0ps315mnwdg98l@glass):

I have a major problem with Windows dialog boxes. Everything in my life is
affirmative action to the right (stereo volume control, car accelerator,
etc). Linux and Mac have OK on the right, that's fine. Even though I
virtually never use those two OSes, non-computer things in life have
ingrained it into my head that yes is on the right and no is on the left.
Almost 50% of the time I subconsciously click the wrong button in a Windows
dialog box because I expect OK to be on the right. "Do you want to save
this?" "Yes, oh no, I pressed cancel!"

There must be some utility I can use to swap these buttons over?

I suspect that you won’t want to hear it, but the default on Macs is to
have OK on the right...

I know it is, having used them at work. Linux too. And I stated this above.

And, back in the days of the Resource Editor, it was
possible, though very much advised against, to dig up ResEdit (that’s
ResEdit,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResEdit not RegEdit) and make changes
to the dialogs. I used to use ResEdit to do things like add command-key
combinations, change the names of menus, change the colours of menus, and
generally play around inside apps and system files, though only on a copy.
Many was the time that what seemed like a minor change (setting the
Finder’s menus to be black with white text, for example) proved to be a
Very Bad Idea.

How to switch defaults on Windows? Simple: convince Microsoft to modify their
APIs and to thereby force all Windows devs to swap the OK and cancel button
positions. I’m sure that they’ll get right on it. Then all Windows devs
will be happy to update all their apps to the new APIs.

Or maybe not...

Or, perhaps you could mess about with a registry editor. I’m pretty sure
that RegEdit won’t cut it, but you could try... And there is a resource
editor out for Windows. I’ve never used it, but you could try it.

If you used to do it, then you can work it out for me, I wouldn't have a clue where to look.