Musoftware Icons Extractor

Musoftware Icons Extractor is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that enables you to extract icons from programs. It also has features for creating, converting and finding icons online.

The app's not packed in a setup kit, so you can copy the downloaded files to a custom location on the disk and just double-click the .exe to launch, as well as store Musoftware Icons Extractor on a USB flash drive to run it on any PC directly. Just keep in mind that .NET Framework must be installed. It doesn't change Windows registry settings or create files on the disk without your permission, though.

As far as the interface goes, the main window has a simple design and intuitive structure, inviting you to open ICO, ICL, DLL, OCX, EXE, CPL and SRC files to preview containing icons, including images, resolution, color depth, compression, number of colors, and channel.

A selected icon can be saved to file with the ICO, ICL, DLL, PNG or BMP extension. Alternatively, you can extract and save all icons to a specified directory. There also an icon finding tool that's able to look into an online database for icons based on the keywords and size range you specify.

The application implements additional features for creating icon files from images using two methods: the quick one can create a 64x64-sized icon from a PNG image, while the advanced one is capable of processing multiple graphics files at a time and gives you the possibility to pick the preferred color type (XP with alpha channel, true colors, 256 indexed colors, 16 colors, monochrome) and size ranging from 256x256 to 16x16. Otherwise, you can create a custom-sized icon, with or without square-shaped restrictions.

To sum it up, Musoftware Icons Extractor contains a surprisingly rich set of features designed for extracting, converting, creating and finding icons. CPU and RAM usage was minimal in our tests.