{"id":2273,"date":"2011-06-25T11:23:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2011-09-20T11:16:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:16:33","slug":"grab-hundreds-of-icons-off-your-own-computer-with-this-cloudeight-freeware-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/grab-hundreds-of-icons-off-your-own-computer-with-this-cloudeight-freeware-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Grab hundreds of icons off your own computer with this Cloudeight Freeware Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211;  unless you have the right tool<\/p>\n<p>Over the years we&#8217;ve had mixed results with icon  extractors. The problem with most of them is that they only extract the smallest  icons from complex icons. Since Windows has progressed from simple icons in 95  and 98 to complex icons in Windows XP and complexer (yes we know!) icons in  Vista and Windows 7, extracting the tiny simple icons isn&#8217;t really helpful. On  today&#8217;s big monitors 16&#215;16 or 32&#215;32 simple icons don&#8217;t look so hot. Well, it&#8217;s  true. XP, Vista and Windows 7 use icons that are complex and contain all sizes  from 16&#215;16 all the way up to 256&#215;256 on Vista and Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vlsoftware.net\/exico\/index.html\">Icons From File<\/a> (which  isn&#8217;t a very creative name is it?) can extract some of the larger sizes from  complex icons found on Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. This means you  might actually be able to use some of the icons you extract because they&#8217;ll be  big enough so that you can tell what the icon actually is.<\/p>\n<p>But rather than ramble on and have you skip to the download link prematurely,  we&#8217;re going to bring in the program&#8217;s developer to wax eloquently about his  program:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Icons from File is a free tool for extracting icons or icon arrays from  files (EXE, DLL, OCX etc.) with the ability to scan folders and search for EXE,  DLL, and OCX files, which contain icons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Extracted icons can be saved  (exported) to a file:<br \/>\n&#8211; All or selected icon to ICO, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, or  EMF files;<br \/>\n&#8211; All icons as a BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, or EMF file.<br \/>\nAll of the  icons from the selected files may also be extracted and saved to a selected  folder in a step or exported to a HTML document (.htm, .html) or dBase 5 file  (.dbf). Saving high color icons (which have more than 16 colors) is also  possible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Export operations may also be performed via the command  line.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Extracted icons may be printed (all or selected).<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The  program is optionally portable&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Freeware Pick &quot;Icons From File&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2011\/icons-from-file.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>These are some of the icons  contained inside Explorer.exe (Windows 7)<\/p>\n<p>If you  need icons, you&#8217;ve already got a million of them on your computer. OK. I  exaggerate. You have hundreds, maybe thousands of them on your computer. Almost  every DLL and EXE file has icons. It&#8217;s kind of like mining. All you have to do  is dig out the gold.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel like mining some icons, you&#8217;ll not need an axe or a shovel. You  just need our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vlsoftware.net\/icons-from-file\/index.html\">freeware pick of the  week Icons From File<\/a>. And you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vlsoftware.net\/icons-from-file\/index.html\">read more about  and\/or download it right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vlsoftware.net\/exico\/index.html\">Icons From File<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nFor  All Versions of Windows (32bit\/64bit)<br \/>\nWhat is it? A tool for extracting icons  from files<br \/>\nDownload size: 879 KB zip file<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a freeware program you love? <a href=\"http:\/\/mycloud8.net\/form\/index.htm\">Tell us about it<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; unless you have the right tool Over the years we&#8217;ve had mixed results with icon extractors.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/grab-hundreds-of-icons-off-your-own-computer-with-this-cloudeight-freeware-pick\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/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":[1288,75,1289,825,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273"}],"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=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}