Do you wish you could extract all the icons stored on your computer? Have you ever wondered where all those icons you see are actually located? Finding high-quality icons on your computer is difficult and that is mainly because applications store their icons directly in the EXE (executable) file itself, which indirectly hides those icons from you.
Software Review: IconsExtract – Extract icons from EXE, DLL, OCX and CPL files.
In this article I will list some tools that you can use to extract icons from the applications that are already installed on your computer. You can use these programs to save the icon files as images or as ICO files of different sizes.
IconsExtract is a freeware application that you can use to automatically find icons stored in EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL and other file types. You will be amazed at the actual number of icons stored on your computer after using this program!
The program is a standalone executable and requires no installation at all, which means you can easily run it on any computer! You can also filter the search by icons or cursors, by icon size and even by color depth.