Extract program icons with IconsExtract

Have you ever wanted to find a program icon so you could apply it to another application or just copy and paste the pretty picture into an image or Word document? While some program icons are clearly labeled as ICO files, others are hidden inside of EXE, DLL, OCX and CPL files. But you can still get at them, using the freeware application IconsExtract.

Here's how it works. You choose a directory to scan and IconsExtract will search through any files that might contain icons. If you search a particular file, like say C:\WINNT\System32\shell32.dll, the search will be super-fast. If you scan your entire program files directory it might take a bit longer.

When IconsExtract is done scanning it'll display a list of available icons. You can save them to ICO or CUR files, or copy an image to your clipboard.

[via gHacks]

Tags: freeware, ICO, icons, IconsExtract