Thank you very much. Great application. I enjoy it!!!

i think you should add png option.

Thanks for a usefull program.

Cool. Thank you!

Thank you for this great tool!

Thanks so much - this really helped me!

very easy to use and, best of all, free!!!

Oh ! Very good ! Thank you !

Great application! Will it support dll files, too, in the future?

Extremely useful app, thx a lot! 😊

Hey, like this.. anyway to specify whcih icon to pull out of a file?
EG, a shortcut uses icon #4 in myapp.exe, all I need is that one icon and need a way to script that single icon retrieval..... I don't need all 20 icons in the exe 😊

a very handy tool. lovely.

I have tried four different free icon extractors, and this is the only one that works as advertised for me.

this is so cool!!! i finally have all of my icons ready!!

It is excellent

Awesome, been looking for something like this for a long time.

Wow excellente! i have been searching for a free program like this for my entire life!

Extremely handy, simple and effective. A masterpiece!

simple and right to the point, about time someone made a program like this one. Good job!

This has got to be the most awesome little FREE program that I have ever seen... so short, sweet, to the point, and simple! Nice work man.

I spent lots of time looking for freeware to extract some Vista icons I want. This tiny software, simple but powerful, tops them all. A real masterpiece!!! It extracts not just 32x32 icons, as most of freeware does, but ALL icons at once! Great! And handy!

Great and sux... For me, it only extract icons with 32x32px...

Thanks, is awsome

Drag,Drop,and POOF its there

Great job, cant wait to see what other handy tools you guys have

Little Note: See if you can make it extract application files instead of just the application and dlls

What a clever piece of work! Handy, simple, and convenient. Not to mention free! Thanks very much.

Wondering if there was a commandline option for a silent extraction of the icon's. So that it could be used in a batch file to extract multiple icons files and folders using a batch file.

Thanks for the great tool. Vlasta, do you have any plans to add extracting bmp or png resources?

My second time and I cant wait until I see what other things you guys have! One more happy user!

Please implementate also to extract png bmp jpg & co. then your tool will be the greatest! Greez

I tried dragging an icon library (.icl file) onto it but it says the file is invalid!?

Please remove Enter key waiting. It stops the script from running continuously... thanks.

Is there any way so that if I call it from a command line it will run continuously? Possibly add a log file in the icon folder to give details on what succeeded and what failed. Other than that, its pretty neat.

really nice, really nice 😊

Hi,
Works really great, (AND MORE!) Bud the more is the problem. Using Vista on one computer and XP on another I experienced the same problem. After extracting the Icons, either on the desktop or in a folder, the program would not end it's association with the Icon folder. They were linked to the point I couldn't move the folder or move the program to end the association. I finally had to reboot to start fresh. Am I missing something? Anyone else have this problem?

Thanks,
David

Vlasta, Strange, I wasn't getting the "Window" yesterday except when clicking the Icon. When dropping a folder on top, it created the Icon folder and put the icons inside and then hung. Today, it is creating the window properly. Must have been a temporary condition, (but on two computers?). I was Copy/Pasteing the program to other folders, maybe this is a factor. David

Hi Vlasta,
I have recently discovered and really enjoy Batch Icon Extractor
and I wonder whether there is a way to define its destination folder, for instance as a parameter from the command line? It is a bit inconvenient for me to have the .exe on my desktop, I would prefer to be able to add a shortcut to Batch Icon Extractor with an argument (specifying the destination folder)to my SendTo folder.
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
Dario

Vlasta-
What a great program! I'd been looking for one just like this for 3 or 4 years. It works great for me but I've got a question. Is there any way for your program to extract the icons used for .exe programs? I use another program, Icon Viewer, to locate icons and it will show the icons for .exe programs but it, of course, has no means of extracting icons. Again, I love what you've created. Thanks much,
Blaine (tulsab)

Using custom output folder is currently not possible, but it might be added in the future (no promises).

Extracting icons from exe files or any other Windows PE files should work without problems.

What language is it written it?

Re:
> > Dario1265 (2008-03-02): ... a way to define its destination folder ...?
> Vlasta (2008-03-03): Using custom output folder is currently not possible, but it might be added in the future (no promises).

In the interim, perhaps this would be easy: Current scheme finds or creates a local directory named "icons" and extracts icons from given "FileName" to files named "icons"\"FileName"_<whatever>.ico

My recommendation is to find or create a local directory named "FileName" (or _"FileName"_ or something like that) and to extract icons into "FileName"\<whatever>.ico

The change should be just a few strings in the source, and the result will be that the user doesn't have to rename the result directory after each use (plus less cumbersome filenames as an added bonus)...

Re:
> > Dario1265 (2008-03-02): ... a way to define its destination folder ...?
> Vlasta (2008-03-03): Using custom output folder is currently not possible, but it might be added in the future (no promises).

In the interim, perhaps this would be easy: Current scheme finds or creates a local directory named "icons" and extracts icons from given "FileName" to files named "icons"\"FileName"_<whatever>.ico

My recommendation is to find or create a local directory named "FileName" (or _"FileName"_ or something like that) and to extract icons into "FileName"\<whatever>.ico

The change should be just a few strings in the source, and the result will be that the user doesn't have to rename the result directory after each use (plus less cumbersome filenames as an added bonus)...

Unknown author said:

"After extracting the Icons, either on the desktop or in a folder, the program would not end it's association with the Icon folder. They were linked to the point I couldn't move the folder or move the program to end the association."

Typical Vista woe:

Try "Unlocker" - works great!

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

Great tool, thanks for making it free.

Thanks a lot, dude 😊

You should happy that this software is free
other icon extractor mostly cost money

and this batch icon extractor can extract icon from sub dir instead of only one by one

Anyway Great Tool ^.^

Batch Icon Extractor 1.0 is a great program. It is a program I have been looking for. I am glad i finally found it and i believe it the best because it is FREE!!!

Suggested Improvements:

• Actual Program compared to command line
• Custom output folder (I know it is in development)
• Custom output file name
• Get a preview of the icons before you extract
• Specify which icons you want

Don't let my long list make it sound degrading, because it is not. If it had all of those things, the program will be "THE TOP" of all free icon extractor programs (if it is not already).

Thanks for your creative efforts. Great simple tool requiring no installation and very portable. Thanks very much!

Tolles Programm! Super einfache Bedienung - einfacher kommt man wirklich nicht an Unmengen Icons.
Grosses Danke dafuer...

wow this batch icon extractor is real cool. I wonder how those other software are offering those "demo" services while this one exists. cool.

Albert Diones

Simply a super tool. Thanks for your efforts!

Wow! This software works and it's free! Thanks for making it! 😁

Superb. Congrats to the developer particularly for the simplest possible interface.

AWESOME!

Thanks A lot for the time and effort you put in to this program!

Thank you! Simply & Useful. Perfect!

I cann,t just go without commenting .Thanks alot .Great application.

this is still working. even on Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit (Build 7600)
i love you! 😊

realy good and portable and fast

It's a very very nice!

its fabuloussssssssssss!!

is it possible to recreate the folder structure too? If I scan the Windows folder with subfolders there are duplicates of the same file..with different icons..can not trach what icon is from which resource file

Yes. Badass Util.

Ty i needed this

Great job, exactly what I was looking for!

Works great! Much appreciated!

The download link halfway down the page is the same link at the top of the page. Also, can you really extract ALL icons from EVERYTHING on your drive? That's... pretty awesome. *downloads*

I love this little program, it dosent need to be installed and it just works. GENIUS!!

AWESOME! Thank you!

THANKS! ITS TRULY GREAT, works on win7 x64 perfectly.

I LOVE YOU!!! this program isss just the best ! *extrats 6890 icons from vista"

Cool!

nice

NIIIIIICE.. THX ... ITS TOO EASY TO USE !!! 😁

nice tool 😁

wonderful 😊
try C:\Windows\System32\Shell32.dll
and if you have Windows 7 try also
C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll

anybody know a small program I can download as an alternative to "Iconpackager" by Stardock? I've downloaded some icons that I want to apply to my computer, but the "Iconpackager.exe" program that I need to unpackage them requires like twice the memory that I have on my old 2005 XP.

worked well for my old VB6 app. Thanks!

how to extract to 256x256 .ico? the original .exe file extracted from other program provide 256x256 but Batch Icon Extractor extracted to 16x16, kindly help.

Super-Excellente 😁

Awesome!!!! I hope it will worked!!!!! 😁
btw,,, Arigatou!!!

Awesome. Nothing else to say.

-yesdawson

I want to use this program in a batch file.

However ... it keeps producing a popup screen with explanation how it works; this can be stopped by a > nul redirect.

But then still it wants a Return after every extraction (and there are hundrerds of extractions!).

How to avoid these quirks?

Henk

may i use your exe?
im building a gui app and id love to use it!

il give credits to you at first run

(it will be freeware!)

Does not extract all icons. Only extracted 32x32 icon from my file, even though it has 48x48 icon.

Is there a silent mode? "/s" like regedit? Doesn't seem to lend itself to unattended batch processing otherwise. 😞

Adding a link for this great app to http://www.portablefreeware.com. Extracts the icon without degradation. Thanks!

Thanks for this awesome simple tool 😊
Please can you add a command-line parameter to make the app to
drop icon's to default drag location ??

Love the tool. The only issue is that I need to minimize all my windows to see the desktop so I can extract my icons.

The app would be so much better if when you run it, it would display a "Always on Top" Inbox where you drop the files and either:
- have a button to open the icons directory; or
- deposit the icons directory in the directory of the exe/dll etc that you are trying to extract the icons from.

Awesome app. Thanks!

What is extract parameter?

does it support .dll and .exe files? and do you have a tool to put them back into a .dll or .exe file? that'd be awesome

You have to know beforehand what files contain icons.
Then it extracts them very well - drag & drop onto the bie-exe file - but until then, it's a guessing game 😞

maybe the program should check inside .dll files aswell as .exe it is missing quite a few icons because of this

This program works well, bulk extracts icons from files and saves them inside a folder called icons where you run the program from. I highly recomment. You will need to find somthing else if you wish to select subtypes etc. But i used this as the main extractor with another program searching its icons dir for filtering of subpicture types.

lts looks good
😊

Perfect program! 😁

Really useful when needing to change some icons.

Still working in 2022 on Windows 11 Pro x64

Would love to have a switch for removing the 'Press Enter to exit' when running this in a FOR loop.

This should be obsolete, since RW Cursor Editor and RW Icon Editor has it now.