I was forced to use Windows 8.1 recently and had a similar experience - I decided to go with icons-only to see how long I could stand it before I got used to it, or reverted to icons+text. I reverted after a few days because it was really difficult to find the right button. Even icons for apps that I&#x27;d surely have seen and used <i>many</i> times, like Visual Studio, were much slower to find amongst the ~dozen others without the text.<p>The other real irritation comes from the fact that the selected button no longer has a &quot;pushed in&quot; effect like Windows Classic used to have, but only a very subtle colour change (and the colour varies depending on the colour of the icon too... so instead of just one &quot;active&quot; colour for everything, I now have to figure out what each app&#x27;s active colour is to find it quickly):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;answers.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows&#x2F;forum&#x2F;windows_7-desktop&#x2F;how-to-make-active-window-border-color-and-taskbar&#x2F;45ae4d86-b64d-4cf5-bd94-d15bd56c800f" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;answers.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows&#x2F;forum&#x2F;windows_7-d...</a>