Free Batch Icon Extractor

Batch Icon Extractor 1.0 September 5th 2005

An easy to use and free tool for batch extraction of icons. Windows Vista compressed icons are supported!

How to use it? Download BatchIconExtractor.exe and place it on your desktop. Drag and drop a file or a folder on the application icon. All icons from the file or from all files under the given folder are saved to a new folder called "icons". This folder is created in the same folder, where the application resides (Desktop by default).

Notes

• The application is provided as is, without warranty of any kind. Authors are not responsible for any damage.
• The application is designed for Windows NT4, 2000, XP, and Vista. It will NOT run on Windows 95, 98, or Me.
• When using the application from command line, specify absolute path to the source file or folder. Relative paths will result in undefined behavior.
• Files in the destination folders are always overwritten unless they have the readonly flag set.
• To extract all icons on the whole drive, drag and drop the drive on the application and then choose to scan for icons recursively.

Download

Version 1.0 from September 5th 2005: BatchIconExtractor.exe for Windows NT4, 2000, XP, and Vista.

Other resources

Learn more about icons in article 'What is a Windows XP icon?'.

Recent comments

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Vlasta site administrator on January 17th 2012

What's the point of building a GUI around it?

Anonymous on January 21st 2012

Does not extract all icons. Only extracted 32x32 icon from my file, even though it has 48x48 icon.

Vlasta site administrator on January 21st 2012

It does extract all icons.

Anonymous on April 30th 2012

Is there a silent mode? "/s" like regedit? Doesn't seem to lend itself to unattended batch processing otherwise.

Anonymous on May 11th 2012

Adding a link for this great app to http://www.portablefreeware.com. Extracts the icon without degradation. Thanks!

Anonymous on June 5th 2012

can you add a command-line parameter to make the app terminate automatically on successful extraction of icons?

Anonymous on September 28th 2012

The faces next to these comments are freaky looking

Anonymous on October 16th 2012

Thanks for this awesome simple tool
Please can you add a command-line parameter to make the app to
drop icon's to default drag location ??

Anonymous on December 11th 2012

Love the tool. The only issue is that I need to minimize all my windows to see the desktop so I can extract my icons.

The app would be so much better if when you run it, it would display a "Always on Top" Inbox where you drop the files and either:
- have a button to open the icons directory; or
- deposit the icons directory in the directory of the exe/dll etc that you are trying to extract the icons from.

Anonymous on January 23rd

Awesome app. Thanks!

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