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The unofficially redistributed official Apple Bootcamp USB drivers didn't seem to do anything for my new Apple Magic Keyboard.

winkbdlayouts provided me a UK Apple layout. It's not perfect (tilde and backtick are swapped, for one thing), but it does get most keys. Initially, it didn't seem to have installed properly, so I ended up editing the registry keys to remap the default UK keyboard to the Apple one, but later I found that I'd simply needed to restart the computer to re-read the registry keys.

Update: I actually find no difference between the custom United Kingdom Apple (WKL) layout and the ready-installed English (United Kingdom) layout. Waste of time.

I didn't end up buying kbdedit, but it helped me understand the layout of things.

Another thing to try would've been Magic Utilities.

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shirakaba commented Sep 16, 2024 •
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Here's the "before" state of the registry before I changed it. I found out that this hack wasn't necessary anyway, however.
Original state of UK keyboard layout in registry

Here are the values I learned from winkbdlayouts:
Trying to use winkbdlayouts

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shirakaba commented Sep 16, 2024 •
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I customised the "Snap windows" tool to behave more like Rectangle.app.

Customising Snap windows edited

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