Icon Explorer

If you are a Windows user, you surely know that in order to have shortcuts displayed on your desktop, you need to have an icon for each shortcut. The same goes for program executable files and for any other type of file. The problem is that finding icons is not an easy job and extracting them from EXE files usually takes a lot of time and effort.

Fortunately, there are specialized applications available on the market which allow you to extract icons from any EXE file. One of them is Icon Explorer. As the name clearly suggests, this Windows program was designed for helping you find icon files on your computer and also extract icons from existing executable files. The application does not need installing and can run directly from the EXE file which can be downloaded from the program's website.

One shouldn't worry about having to learn the interface and its controls, as all the features are clearly visible and are easy to access. In the left part of the interface, the user has a file and folder explorer, which resembles Windows Explorer. When clicking on a folder, all the icon and executable files which are contained by it will be displayed in the right part of the interface. When clicking on an EXE file, all its icons will be displayed and the user can easily save them as an icon library file or just as a regular icon file. Icon Explorer supports all the icon sizes available and allows the user to select the desired size.

But the functionality of Icon Explorer doesn't stop here, as the program also includes a search tool in the interface, which allows you to find certain file types fast, which can save you a lot of time when extracting icons.