One of the changes in Visual Studio 2012 that has drawn the most complains is the forced uppercase of the menus. You can suppress that with the following registry tweak:
- Open the registry editor and go to the following key:
HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftVisualStudio11.0General (for 2012 Pro) HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftVSWinExpress11.0General (for Win8 Express) HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWDExpress11.0General (for Desktop Express) HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftVSWDExpress11.0General for Web Express)
- Create a new DWORD value called SuppressUppercaseConversion set to 1
- Restart Visual Studio and you should see the change