My preferred actions to fix it.
- Change theme (Blue/Dark/Light)
- Menu TOOLS / options / General and choose Color Theme
- Change the menus casing from UPPERCASE to SentenceCase (reference)
- Menu TOOLS / Library Package Manager / Package Manager Console and enter and run
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\General -Name SuppressUppercaseConversion -Type DWord -Value 1
- Disable expanding file contents in Solution Explorer (reference)
- Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0 and add a new dword value named UseSolutionNavigatorGraphProvider with a value of 0.
- Change Icons
- Follow steps here