Icon Viewer
Freeware program to view icons. You can view all the icons that are contained in an EXE, DLL, ICO, or ICL file, or you can view (at the same time) all the icons that are contained in a directory. Besides that you can compare icon files to see whether they are identical or not, and search the...
http://www.vif.com/users/cosmin.smeu/iconviewer.exe - 442Kb - Download - Screenshot

xp style icons
Hundreds of professional XP style icons that come with highly professional design for use in your GUI and web based applications. Each icon is available in four different sizes that includes 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48. Each icon has been provided in two different color depths and three... Main Features: Professionally designed using microsoft xp style icon creation guidelines, hundreds of icons classified in to categories like navigation, web, network, ecommerce, email, icon concepts and more.
http://www.icongalore.com/download/xp-icons.zip - 349Kb - 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. ... Icon Genesis features unique and extremely intuitive Icon Grouping; which is based on Windows XP Sorting technology.
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: 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

Icon Master
It can create icons from any paint program you have. Instead of using primitive icon editors that are usually not better then windows paint, now you can draw icons in any drawing/painting program. Program conversion supports 4, 8, 16, and 24 –bit mode icons. ... With this tool you are able to convert any bitmap(s) into icon, it is simple but professional. ... Use your icons anywhere anytime for anything: for your own programs, website, windows interface design, or just for fun. ... Well… stop reading this, and start downloading that 30KB.
http://www.thealas.com/programs/iconmaster.zip - 42Kb - 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. ... A library with 36 icons and source 3D models is included. ... Alternatively icons can be reated by combining images using drag and drop techniques.
http://www.rw-designer.com/RWIconEditor9x.msi - 9Mb - Download - Screenshot

Business Icons Collection (XP)
The Business Icons Collection (XP) is a set of general-themed XP Style Icons for use in software development and user-interface-design. It is one of many xp icon sets offered by VirtualLNK, LLC. Each icon is inspired by the vibrant look and feel of the Windows XP operating system. ... Those looking for a wide-variety of business application icons will be well served by this elaborate and carefully-designed icon library. ... Users will be pleased to find high-demand concepts such as application basics, devices, documents, and other essential icons.
http://www.virtuallnk.com/shareware/downloads/business-icons.zip - 11Mb - Download - Screenshot

ICL Builder
Quickly and easily consolidate your icons into icon libraries. Includes a built-in editor for modifying icons right in ICL Builder. Also: Export icons to bitmaps. Import bitmaps as icons. Extract icons from ico, exe, dll and icl files. Build and maintain as many icon libraries as desired with up... Print out icon library files. ... Scan for and eliminate duplicate icons. ... ICL Builder Plus includes the ICL Builder software, plus a library of 500 pre-made icons, for only $5. ... 00 more. ... Edit two ICL files at the same time and drag and drop between the two edit windows.
http://ftp.rissnet.com/screensavers/iclsw.exe - 343Kb - Download

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

Icon Constructor - advanced icon maker
Icon Constructor converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, TGA and TIFF formats into Windows icons. You can find many images on the Internet and convert them to icons for use on your Windows desktop, in applications and much more. It supports Windows XP icons in 32-bit color depth with an alpha... By clicking on this icon default e-mail client will start and you? ... With just a few clicks, any image you find on the Internet or create in a paint program can be turned into an icon. ... This robust program works like the Swiss Army knife of icon creation!
http://www.iconconstructor.com/download/iconconstructor_setup.EXE - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot