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ActivIcons

Simple tool to change properties for various icons on your Windows desktop and in Explorer, plus attributes for many other desktop settings. You can save and restore the desktop layout, repair corrupted icons, increase the size of the Windows icon cache to prevent future problems, and more. broken link?Comments 

Batch Icon Extractor 1.0

extract icons from a single application or from all applications in a folder. Use mouse to drag and drop a file or a folder on this application and all icons will be automatically extracted. broken link?Comments 

Cobicon 2.0

Shows all the embedded icons contained in an EXE or DLL file. You can browse the icons and save them into .ico files. broken link?Comments 

CustomIcons 5.0

tool for customizing the icons on your desktop, in Windows Start menu, for your folders and many other locations. Using CustomIcons you can easily replace default Windows icons with the ones to your choice. broken link?Comments 

FreshIcons 1.0.0

Tiny repair utility. By running it, it instructs Windows to refresh icons displayed on the Desktop and in Windows Explorer etc. After executing, it won't stay in memory, it just sends icon update request to Windows and terminates. broken link?Comments 

Icon Editor 1.5

simple tool to create 32x32 pixels icons. broken link?Comments 

Iconoid 3.8.2

Windows desktop icon manager. Makes icon backgrounds transparent, allows you to select any color for icon background and text and more. broken link?Comments 

Icons from File 3.2

Extracts icons or icon arrays from files (EXE, DLL, etc.) with ability to search for EXE and DLL files, which contain icons. You can save extracted icons to file - selected icon to ICO or BMP file and all icons (as one picture) to BMP file. You can print extracted icons (all or selected only). broken link?Comments 

Icons from File 3.4

extracts icons or icon arrays from files (EXE, DLL, OCX, etc.) with ability to scan folders to search for EXE, DLL and OCX files, which contain icons. Extracted icons can be saved (exported) to file - all or selected icon to ICO, BMP, JPEG, EMF files and all icons as one picture to BMP, JPEG or EMF file. Export operations can be performed also through the command line. broken link?Comments 

IconsExtract 1.44

utility that scans the files and folders on your computer, and extract the icons and cursors stored in EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL, and in other file types. You can save the extracted icons to ICO files (or CUR files for cursors), or copy the image of a single icon into the clipboard. broken link?Comments 

IconShop 1.20.905 alpha

Librarian that offers the tools to manage ICL icon libraries. Read and write ICL icon libraries. Drag and drop files and folders from the Windows Explorer onto the IconShop window to process them. Extract icons from Windows icons, cursors, animated cursors, BMP bitmaps, GIF bitmaps, TIFF bitmaps, XPM bitmaps, resources, executables and libraries. broken link?Comments 

LiquidIcon XP 1.0.4 build 2616

Icon editor with integrated Icon Browser for easy icon extraction, several useful image manipulation functions, a set of image effects that will help you in your icon creation and standard set of image editing tools. broken link?Comments 

ResEdit 1.1.1

Icon and cursor editor which allows you to work with 3 different ranges of color palettes (256 colors, 16 colors, 2 colors) and 3 different image sizes (48x48, 32x32, 16x16). broken link?Comments