How to disable all caps menu titles in Visual Studio

Question

I assume the title is self explanatory. Just want to change the look of the Visual Studio 2012 not to show menu title in all capital letters.

Answer 1

For Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone, use

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VPDExpress\11.0\General\SuppressUppercaseConversion

Answer 2

Now that Visual Studio 2015 has changed the default back to Title Case, for those crazies like me who had gotten used to ALL CAPS, you can change it back by disabling the following option:

• Tools -> Options -> Environment -> General -> Apply title case styling to menu bar

Answer 3

For express use:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VSWinExpress\11.0\GeneralSuppressUppercaseConversion 

Credit to FormatC

Answer 4

After years Microsoft has changed their mind on this feature. As of Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC, an option has been added to change between mixed case and upper case: Tools -> Options -> Environment -> General -> Turn off upper case in the menu bar
Obviously this is not for VS 2012 but going forward this option will be there.

Here is the notification from Brian Harry of Microsoft:

Mixed Case Menus – I know I’m going to get some feedback on this one :) This is a long standing request by a vocal portion of the VS user base since VS 2012 to change the “ALL CAPS” menus. In VS 2013 Update 3, we have added a Tools –> Options setting to control whether you see ALL CAPS or Mixed Case. The default is still ALL CAPS but, if you change it, it will persist across upgrades and will roam across your IDE instances using the VS Online roaming settings feature (if you log into VS so it knows who you are).

Answer 5

Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition does not respond to the SuppressUppercaseConversion registry value.

The answer is to enable the option boflynn identified:

• Tools -> Options -> Environment -> General -> Apply title case styling to menu bar

In my case that setting was not on by default, perhaps since I ported my VS 2013 settings.

-Noel