Image to Ico Converter

You most likely recognize desktop shortcuts without actually reading the name, thanks to representative icons. These come in a special format, and every self-respecting program and game has one. In case you need to create one yourself, then Image to Ico Converter is sure to help you out.

There isn’t even the need to go through a setup process to make the application work, and can be run directly after downloading is done. This means you can take it with you anywhere on a USB flash drive, especially since registries are not a dependency, and the target PC won’t feel a thing from running it.

All the application has to offer is found in a pretty compact main window, accompanied by a couple of functions. Accommodation doesn’t take more than a few seconds, thanks to the simplicity of the design. Even so, it could do with a few tweaks for more comfort, such as context menu integration.

The first step is to load a picture to convert to ICO. The application lets you load BMP, PNG, or JPG pictures. However, batch processing is not supported, so you need to go through the entire process for every image you want to convert into an icon. Once loaded, all that’s left to do is convert, with a window that shows up to ask for a save location.

The only difference between the picture you add and the newly created file is the extension. Unfortunately, resolution settings are kept the same, which isn’t necessarily bad, but extra large pictures tend to take up a lot of disk space, and so do resulting icons.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Image to Ico Converter comes in handy for quickly converting a picture into an ICO file. Although the process is straightforward and requires little effort, resolution is not changed, with the resulting file taking way too much for a simple ICO, and there aren’t any editing options or possibility to configure transparency.