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

Folder Marker
How many folders do you have on your computer? Scores of them? Hundreds? Thousands? And all of them are alike: yellow folder, yellow folder, yellow folder, yellow folder? It's so easy to confuse in such a routine! Folder Marker is your small assistant, an ardent fighter for your convenience and... As Folder Marker will add item "Mark Folder" in the folder popup menu, folder icon changing will be the piece of cake even for a child. ... Changing folder icons, Folder Marker will help you to cope with their standard yellowness.
http://www.foldermarker.com/FolderMarkerSetup.exe - 904Kb - 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! ... The icon of folder and driver can be changed by Executable File Icons Changer too. ... 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.
http://www.qwerks.com/download/7963/Setup.exe - 620Kb - Download - Screenshot

Sib Icon Converter
Sib Icon Converter converts Mac OS icons, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, WMF, PCX, TIFF, WBMP, XPM, XBM and CUR formats into multi-resolution Windows icons. You can add files and folders from Windows Explorer or other file shells using drag and drop. You also can paste bitmaps from the clipboard and... Plus, you can break down entire icon libraries into individual icons. ... Sib Icon Converter allows you to extract icons from folders and libraries and place them into the directory of your choice. ... The application has a wizard interface, making it simple to process multiple files at once.
http://www.sibcode.com/downloads/icon-converter.exe - 1Mb - 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... Users can toggle Icon Groups and/or Icon Animation On/Off and keep or hide default Windows icon arrangement. ... The product enables every desktop icon to use up to three GIF animations for the default, "Mouse-over" and the "selected-icon" animations.
http://www.IconGenesis.com/download/icon_genesis_setup.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

Icon Processor
Icon Processor converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, WMF, PCX, TIFF and CUR formats into multi-resolution Windows icons. You can add files and folders from Windows Explorer or other file shells using drag and drop. You also can paste bitmaps from the clipboard and change color resolution and size... Plus, you can break down entire icon libraries into individual icons. ... Icon Processor allows you to extract icons from folders and libraries and place them into the directory of your choice. ... The application has a wizard interface, making it simple to process multiple files at once.
http://www.iconempire.com/downloads/iconprocessor.exe - 1,016Kb - 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: the rapid icon creation tool! ... Perfect Icon provides an easy solution. ... Perfect Icon is the ultimate tool for customizing the icons on your desktop, in Windows Start menu, and in icons of folders and files.
http://www.iconempire.com/downloads/perfecticon.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Folder Jockey
Folder Jockey is a Windows utility designed to save you time. Instead of always hunting through Windows Explorer to find the folder you need, just use Folder Jockey to go there immediately. Folder Jockey lets you keep as many shortcuts to folders on your hard drive as you want. ... And with Folder Jockey, setting a folder shortcut is as simple as right-clicking the folder. ... You can assign hotkeys to your folder shortcuts, too -- for example, you can make Ctrl+Alt+D open your downloads folder instantly, instead of clicking Windows Explorer, clicking My Computer, clicking C:, clicking...
http://www.studylamp.com/downloads/Folder-Jockey-Setup.exe - 590Kb - Download - Screenshot

Batch Icon Extractor
Extract icons from a single application or from all applications in a folder. Use mouse to drag and drop a file or a folder on this application and all icons will be automatically extracted. Simple yet powerful...
http://www.rw-designer.com/BatchIconExtractor.exe - 96Kb - 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