Icon Extractor 2000
Icon Extractor is a small utility that loads and displays the ICON resources found in any file and allows you to select icons to be saved as individual ICO files. You can also copy selected icons directly to the Windows Clipboard. From there they can be pasted into documents or other graphics... Icon Extractor reads DLL, EXE, ICO, ICL, IL and NIL icon file formats.
http://www.gregorybraun.com/ICONX32.ZIP - 566Kb - Download - Screenshot

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... Hover Effects You can add visual effects when mouse hover desktop icons, like dance icon, shake icon text and blink icon text. ... You can change desktop icons to report mode, all the icons will become small, and icon texts will be placed on the right of icons.
http://www.idesksoft.com/DesktopIconToy.exe - 395Kb - 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. ... Multi-resource icons are no problem for this program; it is fast, small, easy to use, and free. ... With this tool you are able to convert any bitmap(s) into icon, it is simple but professional. ... Well… stop reading this, and start downloading that 30KB.
http://www.thealas.com/programs/iconmaster.zip - 42Kb - 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. ... Using this small handy tool, you can easily replace standard Windows icons with the ones that you like and customize desktop attributes.
http://www.iconempire.com/downloads/perfecticon.exe - 1Mb - 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

Easy Icon Maker
Easy Icon Maker is a small and easy-to-use all-in-one icon utility for icon making, editing, changing, extracting, and searching . It allows you editing a transparent or opaque icon. The sizes may be 16 X 16, 32 X 32, 48 X 48, 64 X 64 or custom it as you like. ... This version includes three enhanced icon tools: Icon Changer , Icon Searcher , and Icon Extractor . ... You may import graphic file such as BMP, JPG or GIF and save it into icon file or export icon file to graphic file. ... Filters functions allow you processing the icon with special effects such as LIGHTEN, DARKEN, SOFTEN,...
http://www.qwerks.com/download/5136/iconmaker.exe - 757Kb - 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. ... Hey, you can have a small revolt against Bill Gates and make your PC desktop look identical to Mac OS! ... In addition to 200+ icons that come with the program, there are more than 50 best icon themes (http://www.
http://www.beeicons.com/download_beeicset.php - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

IconCool Editor
IconCool Editor is a powerful icon editor to edit icons, cursors and web graphics. It comes with all the functions for creating and editing ICO, CUR, ANI, ICL, GIF, JPG, BMP, EMF, WMF, TGA and WBMP image files. In addition, it offers more than 50 image filters, including Blurring, Sharpening,... A powerful icon maker, icon creator, small image editor and small graphics maker. ... Supports XP 32bit icons. ... . ... In addition, it offers a 100-level Undo/Redo function, support for non-standard icons sizes and more.
http://www.icon-creator.net/iconed5.exe - 6Mb - Download - Screenshot

Artistic Icons Collection
Are you not satisfied how your website or application looks like? Do you use customary free icons that thousands of other webmasters and programmers already utilize in their projects? Want your product to stand out and look better then your competitors to generate more sales? ... Then check out these professional stock icon collections created by world's most known icon designers that made AWicons Pro! ... There are over 350 icons and small graphics elements with every imaginable theme - folders, printers, scanners, monitors, hearts, gadgets and other objects.
http://www.awicons.com/files/artisticicons.zip - 652Kb - Download - Screenshot

XP Artistic Icons Collection
Are you not satisfied how your website or application looks like? Do you use customary free icons that thousands of other webmasters and programmers already utilize in their projects? Want your product to stand out and look better then your competitors to generate more sales? ... Then check out these professional stock icon collections created by world's most known icon designers that made AWicons Pro! ... There are over 500 icons and small graphics elements with every imaginable theme - folders, printers, scanners, monitors, hearts, gadgets and other objects.
http://www.awicons.com/files/xpartisticicons.zip - 729Kb - Download - Screenshot