Realistic Icons Collection
In our era of visual user interfaces, icons have become an essential component of software, help files, web sites, on-line publications and more. Hiring an icon artist is not an easy task. It's not a problem if you can hire a skilled full time artist. ... Finally, we came across the Realistic icon collection from Lokas, the developers of a well-known icon editing program. ... At the same time, they charge you as if it were a unique icon set. ... They offer several icon sets but we've chosen 'Realistic' because of its Windows Vista look.
http://www.awicons.com/files/realisticicons.zip - 999Kb - 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

IconX
More than an icon theme changer, more than an icon editor, IconX is a program that turbo-charges your Windows desktop icons. It can put shadows, make them bigger, have them zoom up when you put your mouse over them, even change color based on what you are doing. ... -Easily replace any icon on your desktop with a new icon or PNG image. ... -Change font, size and color label of the icon for easier viewing or better looking desktop. ... com/products/icondeveloper/. ... s premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to.
http://storage.stardock.com/files/iconx_public.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

ICL-Icon Extractor
ICL-Icon Extractor is a handy tool for any fashion-conscious user. It allows you to scan and extract icons from virtually any location, be it a local file or folder, zip-archive, Mac OS file or a website. Collected icons are stored in libraries where you can easily sort or locate them and view... Added to this is the ability to export icons to ICO, PNG, JPG, CUR, GIF, XPM and BMP file formats; archive icons in ZIP files, delete duplicate icons and split icon libraries into individual icon files.
http://www.iconempire.com/downloads/iconextractor.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Sib Icon Extractor
Sib Icon Extractor is a handy tool for any fashion-conscious user. It allows you to scan and extract icons from virtually any location, be it a local file or folder, zip-archive, rar-archive, Mac OS file or a website. Collected icons are stored in libraries where you can easily sort or locate... Added to this is the ability to export icons to ICO, PNG, JPG, CUR, GIF, XPM and BMP file formats; archive icons in ZIP files, delete duplicate icons and split icon libraries into individual icon files. ... Sib Icon Extractor also enables you to customize the look of Window by replacing default...
http://www.sibcode.com/downloads/icon-extractor.exe - 1Mb - 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. ... In addition to 200+ icons that come with the program, there are more than 50 best icon themes (http://www. ... The ready availability of new icon sets is an excellent feature, which gives me access to whatever suits my mood.?
http://www.beeicons.com/download_beeicset.php - 2Mb - 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

IconDeveloper
IconDeveloper is a program that makes it a snap to create your own icons for Windows. Most icon editors come with their own graphics editor. IconDeveloper doesn't. Instead, it assumes that most people who want to create icons are either going to create them using an existing graphics package... 95, which adds additional features such as creating and editing any sized icons at any resolution up to 256x256, changing the hue/gamma/color of the icons, batch convert and batch colorize entire folders of icons.
http://storage.stardock.com/files/icondeveloper_free.exe - 2Mb - 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

IconForge Icon Editing Tool Kit
A complete graphics suite for creating, extracting, and modifying icons, cursors, animated icons or cursors and other images. Use for creating bookmark and favorites icons for your web pages, filmstrip animation sequences, stitching together panels of icons, and editing other images. ... BMP filmstrip panels; * Icon Wrapper utility allows you to wrap programs and scripts which do not contain icon resources into an executable with your own icon; * Change system icons/cursors (including animation of desktop icons); * Allows you to create and distribute icon and cursor library EXE...
http://cursorarts.fileburst.com/if32.exe - 9Mb - Download - Screenshot