Web Icons Collection
The Web Icons Collection is a specialty set from VirtualLNK, LLC. , created for webmasters and interface designers. Although themes are based primarily around website development, these web icons will work equally well in a standard desktop application. ... Each icon was inspired by the look and feel of the upcoming Windows Vista operating system. ... VirtualLNK is known for their XP Style Icons and continues to pave the way to the future with this latest Vista Style offering. ... With their realistic appearance, they work great for serious corporate/commercial websites.
http://www.virtuallnk.com/shareware/downloads/web-icons.zip - 7Mb - Download - Screenshot

Junior Icon Editor
Junior Icon Editor allows you to edit icons for Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, ME, 98, 95, NT and other. It supports ICO, XPM, XBM and ICPR icon formats. Using this program you can create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, with color depths up to 32-bit True Color with 8-bit... The new icon window shows a grid display with the grid matching the resolution of the icon you want to create. ... You can set Junior Icon Editor to open to a new icon window or nothing. ... The grid overlay is tabbed, allowing you to open and work on more than one icon, either different sizes of the...
http://www.sibcode.com/downloads/junior-icon-editor.exe - 1,007Kb - Download - Screenshot

ArtIcons
ArtIcons provides great opportunities for working with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons. You will be able to handle Vista Icons with ease. In order to make Vista icons compatible with Windows XP you can save them without any compression. Vista Icons introduce a new style of iconography that... A picture of a maximum size of 256 x 256 to be used as an icon, in principle, is supported by XP, yet such an icon occupies 400Kb of disk space, which is far more than standard 25Kb of an XP icon. ... That technology reduces the size of an icon only, leaving the quality invariable.
http://www.aha-soft.com/articons/aicon.zip - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

IconoMaker
IconoMaker 3. 0 allows you to edit icons for Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, ME, 98, 95, NT and other versions. It supports ICO, PNG, XPM, XBM and other graphics formats. Create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, with color depths up to 32-bit True Color, with 8-bit alpha channel. ... The new icon window shows a grid display with the grid matching the resolution of the icon you want to create. ... You can set IconoMaker to open to a new icon window or nothing. ... The grid overlay is tabbed, allowing you to open and work on more than one icon, either different sizes of the...
http://www.iconempire.com/downloads/iconomaker.zip - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

ArtIcons Pro
ArtIcons Pro provides great opportunities for working with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons. You will be able to handle Vista Icons with ease. In order to make Vista icons compatible with Windows XP you can save them without any compression. Vista Icons introduce a new style of iconography... A picture of a maximum size of 256 x 256 to be used as an icon, in principle, is supported by XP, yet such an icon occupies 400Kb of disk space, which is far more than standard 25Kb of an XP icon. ... That technology reduces the size of an icon only, leaving the quality invariable.
http://www.aha-soft.com/articons/aipro.zip - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Microangelo Toolset
Microangelo Toolset includes everything you need to create and edit icons, cursors and animated cursors for all Windows desktops and programs. Its integrated icon and cursor tools work together to view, edit, explore, scan, extract, replace, eliminate duplicates, and much more! ... Toolset 6 runs on all Windows platforms from Windows 98 through Windows Vista and supports all icons and cursors used in Windows 95 through Vista. ... Software developers: Begin preparing and installing Vista icon support in your programs today!
http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/177785-ALVX/mt602eval.exe - 7Mb - Download - Screenshot

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. ... They offer several icon sets but we've chosen 'Realistic' because of its Windows Vista look. ... According to our experience, most freelance designers simply change a palette or a few effects to sell the same icon set...
http://www.awicons.com/files/realisticicons.zip - 999Kb - Download - Screenshot

Vista Land Icons
125 Quality icons in new Microsoft Vista style for Mac, Windows and Linux.
http://www.fasticon.com/vistaicons.zip - 377b - Download - Screenshot

RealWorld Icon Editor
RealWorld Icon Editor is a feature rich icon maker and extractor. It is able to create Windows XP and Windows Vista icons directly from images and 3D models. By a single mouse-click, RealWorld Icon Editor automatically renders a 3D scene into image or creates an icon. ... With our icon maker you don't have to be a first class artist and you still can create perfect icons by trial and error in a few moments. ... Alternatively icons can be reated by combining images using drag and drop techniques.
http://www.rw-designer.com/RWIconEditor9x.msi - 9Mb - Download - Screenshot

IconLover
Whether you are a professional icon designer, software developer or you simply like to customize your desktop and folders, you will love this program. IconLover is an all-in-one solution providing tools to create, edit, manage, store, search, import, download and convert icons and cursors of... You can have an editor window in one tab and a browser window in another. ... Browse icon libraries, import icons from various resources (executables, dynamic link libraries, image collections) by simply clicking tabs in the IconLover window.
http://www.aha-soft.com/iconlover/iconlove.zip - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot