IconPackager
The world's best, easiest way to change the icons on Microsoft Windows! IconPackager is a program that allows users to change nearly all of their Windows icons at once by applying "packages" of icons. A package of icons contains icons to replace most of the common icons on your Windows PC. ... You don't have to rely on icon packages made by others either, creating your own icon packages is very easy. ... IconPackager can change nearly every icon in Windows. ... It can even change icons that most people would think are impossible to change.
http://storage.stardock.com/files/iconpackager_public.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

XP Icons
Give your Win98/Me/Win2k System icons the look of XP by changing your Start menu, Desktop, Drives, Folders and various file type icons to XP. XP Icons changes nearly 100 Win98/98SE/Me and Win2k system icons to the new Windows XP Icons Set. Version 3 now allows installing the complete set or... Also includes options to remove shortcud colored block behind the Desktop Icon text. ... Also allows choice of Desktop Icons text colors.
http://camtech2000.net/Programs/xpicon30.zip - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

CustomIcons
CustomIcons is an ultimate tool for customizing the icons on your desktop, in Windows Start menu, for your folders and many other locations. Using CustomIcons you can easily replace default Windows icons with the ones to your choice and customize a wide variety of desktop attributes. ... 6) Rebuild and repair the icon cache (this feature lets you restore the desktop after a system crash). ... With CustomIcons you can: 1) Replace the default icons Windows uses to display My Computer, Recycle Bin, Internet, Start menu items, drives, shortcut and share overlays, system folders and other...
http://www.iconempire.com/downloads/customicons.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Control icons XP
Is the unique set of XP utilities. More than 100 additional possibilities Controlicons XP? is widening of your Windows XP function possibilities. Total system controlMultifunctional tweak:This application allows to change standard icons Window to others, and icons taken of other applications...
http://www.controlxp.atvsoft.com/controlicons.exe - 391Kb - Download - Screenshot

FolderIcon XP
Change an icon for any folder with two clicks. Select one of 129 specially designed XP-style icons (colored, numbered, marked folders) or use any external icon. Extendable set of 262 specially chosen system icons is installed with FolderIcon. All changes may be logged and then canceled...
http://meaningdata.com/download/FolderIconXP10.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

IconCool Manager
IconCool is a powerful tool to manage, extract, convert, modify, search, create, enlarge or reduce icons. An icon library with dozens of sample entries is included and accessible through a tree-style organizational system, allowing you to categorize icons and create new libraries within them. ... Icon library, icon extractor & icon manager. ... Now you can drag-drop icon files from your Windows Explorer to any icon library. ... )IconCool can enlarge or reduce a transparent icon, and the new icon will be transparent too; B.
http://www.imagecool.com/iconcl4.exe - 8Mb - Download - Screenshot

Bee Icons
Since picture is worth a thousand words, visit www. BeeIcons. com before reading this description. Bee Icons 4. 0. 2 offers more than 200 pizzazz artistic images to replace your boring Windows system icons. You can spice up Desktop, Start menu, Drives, Folders, Files and other icon types. ... I love the ease of Bee Icons and the ability to change a single icon if you want.? ... In addition to 200+ icons that come with the program, there are more than 50 best icon themes (http://www. ... The great thing about Bee Icons is that it is compatible with AWIcons, one of the best icon editing...
http://www.beeicons.com/download_beeicset.php - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

IconXP
Aha-soft IconXP allows you to edit icons and customize the Windows desktop appearance. It supports the new icon format introduced in Windows XP (employs smooth transparency and other visual effects). Using this program you can create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, with color... There are also commands that change the desktop icons size and color resolution, and rebuild the icon cache. ... IconXP allows you to import, export and change color palettes for icon images. ... You can easily replace, colorize and save the icons Windows uses to display various objects - My...
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconxp/iconxp.zip - 874Kb - Download - Screenshot

ASTC
ASTC component provides an easy way to enable your VB, VC++, C#, VB. NET, or other COM environment applications to put an icon in system tray area It supports many advanced features such as show balloons and animated icons. ASTC Object Model Features: Show-Hide the icon in systray area. ... Change the icon and tooltip in run time. ... Track Popup menu so whenever your program lost focus the icon popup menu will be closed. ... Show more than one icon in the systray. ... Check the current state of the icon [visible or invisible].
http://www.cpringold.com/downloads/astcDownloads.html - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

HideHelper - Hide windows and tray icons
1. HideHelper supports powerful function of defining hotkeys(Hide/Show): one is temporary hotkeys,the other is permanent hotkeys,you can Hide/Show one or a group of windows by pressing the hotkeys being attached with specific conditions 2. HideHelper can change the icon and title of any window. ... For example,HideHelper can change the Internet Explorer window's icon to the Word's icon,so it will show the Word's icon instead of IE's in the taskbar 3. ... HideHelper is developed by standard Windows API and optimized by good arithmetic,so it only costs few system resource In addition:...
http://www.qwerks.com/download/7848/HideHelper.exe - 701Kb - Download - Screenshot