Can you turn off all caps on the menus in VS2012?

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The all caps in the menus for VS2012 is highly annoying, is there a setting somewhere in the IDE or elsewhere to turn it off?

possible duplicate of [How to disable all caps menu titles in Visual Studio 2012 RC?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10859173/how-to-disable-all-caps-menu-titles-in-visual-studio-2012-rc) — Edward Thomson, Jun 15 '12 at 17:26
I agree, it is duplicate, but why did that not show up when I searched and when I put in the question title. — BlackICE, Jun 15 '12 at 22:20

score 37 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 01 '13 at 11:03

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There is also another way to do this, create the following registry key and set its value:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General\SuppressUppercaseConversion
REG_DWORD value: 1

edited Jul 01 '13 at 11:03

Duncan Smart

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answered Jun 15 '12 at 15:09

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I'm not sure this is correct Ajay - VS2012 does seem to store it's settings in the registry location mentioned above (it worked for me anyway) – John Sibly Feb 28 '13 at 13:53

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 08 '13 at 18:08

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You can also run this in the Power Shell

Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General -Name SuppressUppercaseConversion -Type DWord -Value 1

answered Feb 08 '13 at 18:08

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score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 14 '12 at 23:45

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Yes; search NuGet (yes, NuGet) for VS2012 Caps.

answered Jun 14 '12 at 23:45

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score 2 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

An easy way (IMO) to achieve the registry key suggested by David would be entering it through a registry-file. This can be done by saving the code underneath to a .reg-file (e.g. VS2012_MenuCasing.reg) and double-clicking it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General\]
"SuppressUppercaseConversion"=dword:00000001

I hope it saves somebody some time...

Can you turn off all caps on the menus in VS2012?

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