Disabling Visual Studio 2012's All-Caps Feature

If you find Visual Studio 2012's all-capital-letter menus annoying, here's how you can remedy that situation.

Michael Otey

October 18, 2012

1 Min Read
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If you find Visual Studio 2012's all-capital-letter menus annoying, you can turn them off by following these steps:

1.     Open regedit.

2.     Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftVisualStudio11.0General.

3.     Create a DWORD value named SuppressUppercaseConversion.

4.     Set the new DWORD with a value of 1.

After this change, the labels for the menu items will consist of uppercase and lowercase letters.

Related main article: Visual Studio 2012 New Features

See also: Visual Studio 2012's New Database Features

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