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

Picture To Icon
Picture To Icon converts images or any part on your screen into icons, resizes the icon and extracts icons from libraries. With Picture To Icon you make nice Windows icons of your pictures and digital photos quickly and easily. Picture To Icon converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, CUR, WMF, Png formats into... You can resize icon form 1 x 1 icon to 240 x 240 icon. ... Use this tool, you can convert GIF2ICO, JPG2ICO, BMP2ICO, WMF2ICO,Png2Ico, SCREEN2ICO, CAPTURE ICON FROM SCREEN and RESIZE ICON. ... All icon size below 240 x 240 are all supported by Picture To Icon.
http://www.qwerks.com/download/8071/pic2icosetup.exe - 667Kb - Download - Screenshot

Sib Icon Extractor
Sib 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, rar-archive, Mac OS file or a website. Collected icons are stored in libraries where you can easily sort or locate... 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. ... Sib Icon Extractor also enables you to customize the look of Window by replacing default...
http://www.sibcode.com/downloads/icon-extractor.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Icon Scanner
This utility scan folders and drives on your computer and extract hidden icons and cursors, contained in ICO, CUR, EXE, DLL files, icon libraries and other types of files. You can view icons as thumbnails in a resizable window, select and save them as icons or bitmaps. ... Explorer like interface, recursive directory search, file types filtering allows you to quickly find and save hundreds of icons with minimal effort.
http://www.softspice.com/download/ssicon10.exe - 694Kb - Download - Screenshot

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

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

Icon Bank (Web 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/ib40ns.zip - 638Kb - Download - Screenshot

RefreshEm
You may have noticed that sometimes the Desktop and Windows Explorer start to display the wrong Icons for some file types. Running RefreshEm when they do repairs the Windows Icon Cache so that the proper ones are immediately displayed. It does not stay in memory, immediately terminates after... Just click or double click the Icon each time you want to refresh the icons.
http://camtech2000.net/Programs/refrsh10.zip - 79Kb - Download - Screenshot

Any to Icon
If what you crave for is a pain-free ability to create your own icons, then Any to Icon may be the way to go. This slim application provides you with a handy conversion wizard to produce multi-resolution Windows icons from images and Mac OS icons. Images may come in a variety of formats,... Simply select a file, or a folder with images, customize icon output settings that include icon size, color depth, transparency, and specify a destination folder. ... In addition to icon creation, Any to Icon gives you an extra ability to extract icons from folders and libraries to save them as...
http://www.aha-soft.com/anytoicon/any2icon.zip - 1Mb - 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. ... You can find many images on the Internet and convert them to icons for use on your Windows desktop,...
http://www.iconempire.com/downloads/iconprocessor.exe - 1,016Kb - Download - Screenshot