Any to Icon
If what you crave for is a pain-free ability to create your own icons, then Any to Icon may be the way to go. This slim application provides you with a handy conversion wizard to produce multi-resolution Windows icons from images and Mac OS icons. Images may come in a variety of formats,... Simply select a file, or a folder with images, customize icon output settings that include icon size, color depth, transparency, and specify a destination folder. ... In addition to icon creation, Any to Icon gives you an extra ability to extract icons from folders and libraries to save them as...
http://www.aha-soft.com/anytoicon/any2icon.zip - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Program Icon Changer
The tool can replace the icon in the executable file. Even if you move the file to another computer, the changed icon will be displayed anyway ! The soft supports all PE formate executable files, even the executable files are compressed or the size of the icon is inconsistent! ... If you want to extract and save the icons in exe file, Exe Icon Changer will be your first choice. ... It can save the icon as two formats: bmp and ico. ... The icon of folder and driver can be changed by Executable File Icons Changer too.
http://www.qwerks.com/download/7963/Setup.exe - 620Kb - Download - Screenshot

AIconExtract
Did you realize that there are probably thousands of icons, cursors and bitmap resource images located on your computer? AIconExtract is a handy utility that allows you to extract the images for your own use. AIconExtract is a 32-bit utility that was designed to allow you to easily extract icon,... Using AIconExtract's user friendly interface you can view all of the static icon, cursor and bitmap resource images included within the files stored on your computer. ... Software developers often include dozens of icon, cursor and bitmap resource images within computer programs.
http://www.bpsoftware.com/download/AICON.ZIP - 5Mb - Download - Screenshot

Change Folder Icons
Change the standard icon of folders to another found icon fast and simple with this small utility for Windows. You can do this pressing right mouse button on a folder and selecting the item "Change Folder Icon" from popup menu. You can search for icons with specified parameters in all types of... x: - ADVANCED SEARCH OPTIONS are made; now you can set options "Number of colors" and "Size in pixels" before search and only necessary icons will be find; - you can browse all icon variations of one found icon, if it consists of several icons various in size/colors (16x16x256 + 32x32xHiColor +...
http://www.nesoft.org/changefoldericon/cfisetup.exe - 954Kb - Download - Screenshot

ActivIcons
ActivIcons allows you to customize the Windows desktop icon and cursor attributes. Includes the functions you need whether you want to use animated icons on your desktop, or just to replace icons for Network Neighborhood, My Computer, and other icons which Windows places on your desktop and... It also lets you quickly change the default Windows mouse cursors, make the icon text labels transparent, change the color of desktop icon text descriptions, replace the Windows startup and shutdown screens, rebuild and/or purge the Windows icon cache, increase the size of the Windows desktop cache,...
http://cursorarts.swmirror.com/acticn.zip - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Icon Scanner
This utility scan folders and drives on your computer and extract hidden icons and cursors, contained in ICO, CUR, EXE, DLL files, icon libraries and other types of files. You can view icons as thumbnails in a resizable window, select and save them as icons or bitmaps. ... Explorer like interface, recursive directory search, file types filtering allows you to quickly find and save hundreds of icons with minimal effort.
http://www.softspice.com/download/ssicon10.exe - 694Kb - Download - Screenshot

Icon Catcher
Finding necessary icon images for your shortcuts/documents is not easy task. Before downloading one of those gigantic icon collections, consider that one probably already exists on your hard drive! Average computer contains hundreds, even thousands of different icons "hidden" in a variety of... The new version of software has a brand new improved user interface that is intuitive and very easy to navigate through large icon collections. ... 0 is a high-speed batch icon extractor and processor capable of scanning over 3000 icons in one minute.
http://www.helexis.com/ic/iconcatc.zip - 670Kb - Download - Screenshot

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 also includes Icon Explorer. ... Everything from "My Computer", "Recycle Bin", Folders, all the way to specific file format icons such as .
http://storage.stardock.com/files/iconpackager_public.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

IconChanger
Does your desktop look plain and boring? Get Icon Changer! Icon Changer is a software application that makes changing icons fun and easy. It's a hassle-free way to personalize your desktop without having to open up any computer manuals. Simply click the icon you want to change, point at the one... Other advantages of Icon Changer include file type filtering options, recursive directory search, easy access to favorite icons, and automatic resolution adaptation. ... Then you know that all the documents created with these (and other) applications "inherit" the icon from the program from which...
http://www.shelllabs.com/IconChanger35.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

TM Icon Extractor
Grab any icons number from exe- and dll-files. Choose the file from which you'd like to grab icons and they are grabbed. Then simply point the path to save icons on your computer. If you grabbed many icons you may save them also by the same simple way.
http://www.tm-research.com/products/icon-extractor/setup.exe - 357Kb - Download - Screenshot