Desktop Icon Toy
Desktop Icon Toy is a desktop icon enhancement tool that allows you to manage your windows desktop icons. Currently, there are most of similar tools, such as make desktop icon backgrounds transparent, arrange desktop icons. But none of them can animate desktop icons, add hover effects to desktop... Automatically Hide Desktop Icons You can automatically hide desktop icons when mouse off the desktop or desktop icon. ... Dance Desktop Icons You can drag and drop desktop icons to run around the desktop, and double click the desktop to stop the running icons.
http://www.idesksoft.com/DesktopIconToy.exe - 395Kb - 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. ... Use the built in pre-loads for easy use or go in and set it up for yourself.
http://storage.stardock.com/files/iconx_public.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Icon Bank (Desktop Edition)
When it comes to icons, Icon Bank v4. 0 is the complete solution. Unlike most collections that use . DLL or . ICL files to store the icons, Icon Bank v4. 0 stores them in local . htm files. This is because most of the programs used to compile icon libraries can only save them in 16 colors and so... Icon Bank v4. ... The icons in Icon Bank v4. ... 0 are all a brilliant, 256 colors and are ready to use. ... 0 comes with gobs of great features and over 5,000 beautiful Windows icons neatly organized into 54 different categories.
http://www.spriteworks.com/ib40ge.zip - 371Kb - 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 Genesis
revolutionary and powerful desktop icon management tool for Windows XP that can increase productivity, save time and boost fun by using Icon Groups and "Live! " Interactive & animated 3D icons. Icon Genesis brings revolutionary, and easy to use icon management; and takes advantage of today’s... The product enables every desktop icon to use up to three GIF animations for the default, "Mouse-over" and the "selected-icon" animations. ... Users can toggle Icon Groups and/or Icon Animation On/Off and keep or hide default Windows icon arrangement.
http://www.IconGenesis.com/download/icon_genesis_setup.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

Perfect Icon
Perfect Icon is an easy tool for creating icons from pictures and photos. Various graphic formats are supported: BMP, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, WMF and more. Perfect Icon generates stylish semi-transparent icons for Windows XP. Various effects and styles allow you to make unusual pictograms too. ... Perfect Icon is the ultimate tool for customizing the icons on your desktop, in Windows Start menu, and in icons of folders and files. ... Perfect Icon: the rapid icon creation tool! ... Using Perfect Icon, you can easily replace default Windows icons with ones of your choice and customize them with a...
http://www.iconempire.com/downloads/perfecticon.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Save Desktop Icon Pos.
Overview This program gives you the power to save the positions of your desktop icons. Icons can be hidden or shown. These patterns can then be saved and restored at any time. Even special icons such as the Recycle Bin and My Documents can be removed. ... * If you have kids or anoying cousins who are always rearranging your icons, then this is the perfect way for you to put your icons back to however you want them * If you change your screen resolution frequently (or even a game changes it for you!
http://rikster.7host.com/Downloads/SaveDeskIcon/SaveDeskIconPosEXE.zip - 2Mb - 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 use my PC almost exclusively for business. ... I am very fussy about the appearance of my PC desktop. ... Hey, you can have a small revolt against Bill Gates and make your PC desktop look identical to Mac OS!
http://www.beeicons.com/download_beeicset.php - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Amelix Icon Manager
Amelix Icon Manager will store your desired desktop icon layout. Then, if something changes your desktop icon layout, you can restore your desired icon array with a simple click. Also, if you want other users to be able to use different icon layouts, Amelix Icon Manager will create an unlimited... Each user can then have his own arrangement.
http://www.amelix.com/icon-manager/iconman1.exe - 1,004Kb - 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). ... 3) Export any standard Windows icon into an individual ICO, BMP, GIF, PNG or JPEG file. ... Using this small handy tool you can easily replace standard Windows icons with the ones you like and...
http://www.iconempire.com/downloads/customicons.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot