I installed Visual Studio 2017 Professional on Windows 10. Then using the installer I saw that VS 2017 Enterprise was "available" so I installed it. Now all of VS (Blend, VS, etc.) are duplicated in the start menu. I would like to be able to remove the duplicate entries in the start menu but I don't seem to have that option. Does anyone know how to remove all of the "...(2)" entries in the start menu? And related why does VS installer create these duplicate entries?
Right click on the duplicate item in the start menu > more > go to file location. There will be shortcuts titled the same as the items on your start menu, just delete the shortcuts and your start menu will reflect instantly.
Or goto :
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
and remove them directly
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After uninstalling VS2012, Blend for Visual Studio 2012 is still there (both in Start Menu and in Program Files (x86)\Visual Studio 11\Blend), even after I ran the installer with /uninstall /force (which removes all optional components). How can I remove it from my system? Is there an installer for Blend?
I think I might have found a way:
In C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{57F20F04-014D-453F-B6A3-AE9485C4DFAB}v5.0.30709.0\packages\Blend_Core, right-click Blend_Core.msi and click Uninstall.
In C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{532DBCC8-9468-435C-AEF6-30B7F50735A2}v5.0.30709.0\packages\Blend_LP, right-click Blend_LP.msi and click Uninstall.
I was more concerned with removing Blend from the start menu than removing it from my harddrive (because I kept opening blend accidentally when I want VS).
To do this, type blend in the start menu. Right-click on the Blend option that comes up, and click click 'Open file location' (For me, this opened C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Visual Studio 2013). Delete the link to blend from that location and it will stop appearing in the start menu.
Is there any way to selectively hide menu items in Visual Studio 2012?
I found this post:
Visual Studio 2012 Toolbars
but this isn't it what I want.
I would like to hide some of the items like "Architecture" and "Test" etc.
In Visual Studio 2012: Tools->Customize->Commands. Then select the menu item you don't want and hit Delete.
I think you may want to look at Hide Main Menu
After installing this extension, Visual Studio's main menu will
collapse when not in use (using the same behavior as Windows Explorer
and Internet Explorer). To use the menu, simply press and release the
Alt key, or press and release Alt+ to directly show a menu
(e.g. Alt+F to show the file menu). The menu bar will automatically
hide again once you're finished using it.
To disable this feature after installing, use Tools\Extension Manager
to disable or uninstall the extension (of course, you'll have to use
Alt+T to show the Tools menu if the extension is enabled).
For selectively hiding the option go to Tools->Customize->Commands and then delete the option which you want.
I wass looking for quite some time now how I could see the file type icon of each file I have opened in visual studio 2012 tab well, like it was shown on previous versions of visual studio. This was completely removed from vs 12, couldn't find any option enabling this. This is something extemely usefull when having many open files.
I found that this option exists on the registry!
So you go here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\DialogPage\Microsoft.CustomDocWell.Options
and change the IconInTabs property from false to True!
File type icons are displayed again next to each tab!!!!
Edit: In order for this to work you must have installed Productivity Power Tools 2012 plugin
I just get a very strange issue about my new installed VS 2012.
As you see in the screen shots it was OK to see the menu under 'File' option in my VS 2010 but at the same place of VS 2012 I couldn't see the popup menu after click the 'File' option.
However, I could trigger the function in the menu by shortcut keys such as 'X' to exit and double 'Enter' to create a new project.
Besides this I also can't see any the context menu in the IDE by pressing right mouse button.
I have tried to re-install VS 2010 and 2012 times and times but the issue is never fixed.
Do you have any idea about this? Thanks.
I recently installed Visual Studio 2012, and I've been banging my head against my desk looking for missing options.
I use the Recent Projects and Solutions menu option (under the File menu) a lot in Visual Studio 2010, but don't have anything like that in Visual Studio 2012. However, my boss does, so I know there's something wrong with my install or an option I've missed.
I've casually looked through registry settings for anything like "Project" that exists in my 2010 settings but does not exist in my 2012 settings, and came up empty handed. Does anyone know how to fix this?
It looks like some part of the upgrade process just removed this menu option for me. Following nithins link to this question, I followed the instructions the author created to re-create the Recent Projects and Solutions menu item.
For posterity, those steps were (performed in Visual Studio 2012):
Under the Tools menu, click Customize...
Click the Commands tab.
Change the Menu bar selected option in the drop-down list to File.
Click Add New Menu.
Click Modify Selection, rename to Recent Projects and Solutions.
Under the Menu bar drop-down list, select File | Recent Projects and Solutions.
Click Add Command...
(The Add Command menu should appear here.)
Under Categories on the left-hand side, click File.
When the Commands list (on the right-hand side) refreshes, click Recent Project list, and click OK.
Click Close.
Happy project switching!
I had the exact same problem, but I had the sense that other menu items were missing as well.
What I did was go into Tools => Import & Export Settings, choose Reset all settings, and then select the same profile as when I installed Visual Studio. (General Development Settings.) That fixed the issue.