{"id":1226,"date":"2011-04-08T08:31:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2011-04-08T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:32:40","slug":"icon-see-you-have-lots-of-hidden-icons-cloudeight-freeware-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/icon-see-you-have-lots-of-hidden-icons-cloudeight-freeware-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Icon see you have lots of hidden icons – Cloudeight freeware pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Did you know that you have tons of icons on your computer and many of \t\tthen you never see? Many EXE, DLL, and other files contain one or more \t\ticons, but getting these little buggers out of there is a problem – \t\tunless you have the right tool<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Over the years we’ve had mixed results with icon extractors. The problem \t\twith most of them is that they only extract the smallest icons from \t\tcomplex icons. Since Windows has progressed from simple icons in 95 and \t\t98 to complex icons in Windows XP and complexer (yes we know!) icons in \t\tVista and even more complexer (quit picking!) in Windows 7, extract the tiny simple icons isn’t really helpful. On today’s \t\tbig monitors 16×16 or 32×32 simple icons don’t look so hot. Well, it’s \t\ttrue. Vista and XP use icons that are complex and contain all sizes from \t\t16×16 all the way up to 256×256 on Vista\/Windows 7.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Icons From File<\/a> (which isn’t a very creative name is it?) can extract some of the larger \t\tsizes from complex icons found on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 systems. \t\tThis means you might actually be able to use some of the icons you \t\textract because they’ll be big enough so that you can tell what the icon \t\tactually is.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

Another nice feature, for those of you who like to decorate your blogs, \t\tWeb pages, or emails, is that Icons from File can save the extracted and \t\tconverted to JPEG format – a format you can use on any Web site, blog or \t\tHTML email. There might be thousands of icons hiding in files on your \t\tcomputer – and Icons From File makes it a snap to extract them all.<\/p>\n

It couldn’t be much easier to use. Just scan your folders for icons that \t\tare locked away inside those EXE, DLL, and other files in which icons \t\tlike to hide and let ‘er rip. Icons From File will show you what you’ve \t\tgot. It’s sort of like combing the beach with a metal detector when you \t\tget old and move to Florida. You never know what you might dig up – and \t\twho knows? You might even be able to use some of the stuff you find to \t\tmake pretty Web pages or spruce up your boring blog or email message.<\/p>\n

OK, you get the idea by now. If you don’t then you don’t need Icons From \t\tFile. Time to bring in the developer and let him tell you all about his \t\tprogram, because he’s far more succinct than we:<\/p>\n

“Icons From File is a tool for extracting \t\ticons or icon arrays from files (EXE, DLL, OCX, etc.) with ability to \t\tscan folders to search for EXE, DLL and OCX files, which contain icons.<\/p>\n

Extracted icons can be saved (exported) to file – all or selected icon \t\tto ICO, BMP, JPEG, EMF files and all icons as one picture to BMP, JPEG, \t\tor EMF file. There is an ability to extract and save all icons from all \t\tfiles in selected folder at once. Also, all icons from the selected file \t\tcan be exported to HTML document (.htm, .html) or dBase 5 file (.dbf). \t\tSaving high color icons (which have more than 16 colors) is also \t\tpossible. Export operations can be performed also via command line.<\/p>\n

There is an ability to print extracted icons (all or selected only).”<\/p>\n

If this sounds like something that would \t\tplease the miner or artist in you, then we highly recommend you \t\tdownload \t\tIcons From File<\/a>. It’s a great little freeware program, despite its \t\tvery uncreative moniker. We hope you enjoy the program anyway – it’s our \t\tfreeware pick of \t\tthe week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Don’t forget! \t\tFolderMagic lets you drag any \t\ticons you have into it – and change any folder icon easily<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Icons From File<\/a><\/strong>
\nFor All Versions of Windows (32bit\/64bit)
\nWhat is it? A tool for extracting icons from files
\nDownload size: 564 KB zip file<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that you have tons of icons on your computer and many of then you never see? Many EXE, DLL, and other files contain one or more icons, but getting these little buggers out of there is a problem – unless you have the right tool Over the years we’ve had mixed results with icon extractors.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[636,826,828,825,827],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8057,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/8057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}