Thursday, May 31, 2012

Stop the screaming! Are the Visual Studio 2012 ALL CAPS menus bugging you? Here's a Reg Hack to fix it!

Richard Banks - Agile and .NET - How To Prevent Visual Studio 2012 ALL CAPS Menus!

"For all those people who can’t stand the ALL CAPS menus in Visual Studio 2012 there’s a way to switch them to normal casing.

Crack open your registry editor and create the following registry key and value

... [GD: Click though for the reg key, I don't want to leach all his traffic...]

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And it works like a charm for me too! This is a must have reg hack!  Richard, you are my hero... :)

4 comments:

  1. LOL! Thanks for the link, and not stealing the traffic :-D

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  2. I am truly baffled as to why this is not the default setting.

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  3. You know, they have thrown so much sh!t against the wall to see what sticks it really makes me wonder how much of it we don't even get to see until its too late.

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  4. You can also download this extension from Visual Studio Gallery and remove ALL CAPS or even hide main menu altogether: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a83505c6-77b3-44a6-b53b-73d77cba84c8

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