VS2012 How to turn off editor tab colouring?

Question

I strain to read the tabs in the source code editor of Visual Studio 2012. I don\'t even understand what the different colors mean? They seem totally random. Black on brown or

Answer 1

The colors of each tab comes from productivity power tools. For each project power tools assign a colors, so developer can easily detect a file(if contain same name) belongs to which project.

For VS 2013 & 2015 you can easily remove those color by unchecked Colors tab by project following below steps

go to Tools > Options > Productivity Power Tools > Custom Document Well > General