Icon Collector

Icon Collector is a handy application that can help you extract certain icons from files located on your hard drives. It gives you the possibility to extract and convert the icons from any file that has one.

After scanning a directory, along with its subfolders, the application will list any files that have icons. You can easily extract any icon from any of those files.

Some of the supported formats are ICO, EXE, DLL, OCX and CPL, as these files usually have an icon attached to them. After the scan is completed, any file that contains an icon or thumbnail is displayed, along with its extension. The extracted icons can be added to a collection, in order to categorize them.

You can preview each icon, then set it as default background. Besides, you can perform advanced modifications on each extracted icon. You have the possibility to save any icon to a collection, or convert it to other formats, such as ICO or BMP.

You can easily manage your collections, by adding new ones, moving or deleting icons from any of them. You can copy icons to your clipboard, allowing you to quickly paste or use them in certain situations.

For instance, you can edit icons from applications and files you already own, in order to create a new thumbnails for other applications. Each icon can be edited, by changing its background color. In order to help you categorize your icons, Icon Collector provides you with two panels, one containing the raw, unsorted and extracted icons, whilst the other contains the sorted collections.

By using this application, you will be able to seamlessly extract and edit certain icons from your ICO, EXE, DLL, OCX and CPL files, then save and categorize them in organized collections and libraries.