IconFinder for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffNovember 8, 2008

Free and small, IconFinder holds true to its name by finding icons and doing little else. This no-frills, blandly designed executable exists only to look through a directory and show any icons contained in the directory files. We would expect that it could save the icons automatically as ICO files or as BMPs, but this option is not implemented. You can manually save each icon as an ICO file, but you even have to type the name with the ICO extension. Another big problem is that all extracted icons are in 16 colors. Users who need to extract one or two simple icons may find use for IconFinder, but there are many better products in the marketplace.

IconFinder for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: July 19, 2002

Latest update: November 8, 2008

Version: 2.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 10
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows NT

Additional Requirements: Windows NT/2000/XP

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 40,022

Downloads Last Week: 3

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User Reviews

3.3/5

21 User Votes

XP users: Don't bother!
MacroSoftAugust 29, 2005
Pros
Really nice concept, if it were only developed and finished, BUT...
Cons
it isn't. Hangs trying to save its search results.
Summary
All I can say is..... wow!
Meezer80June 2, 2005
Pros
This thing pulls every icon, and I mean EVERY icon from your PC. After seeing this thing run, I can't believe people pay for icon packages.
Cons
The ONLY con is, of course, you get mucho duplicates, but so what! It's free!!
Summary
The Best I have ever seen in 4 years
December 20, 2004
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Look it is Free 1 2 the Gui Is just Plane easy as linux 3 it finds all your icons even the ones in .dll's it looks in .zips and just about all your files the best i have seen yet just try it. it takes up no space and is just one .exe file there is no isue that i have seen this guy gits a 10 pluss in my book The world is FREE
Don't download
August 7, 2004
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Summary
this application terribly distorts the icons it extracts. I do not recommend this
July 15, 2004
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Does The Job
March 19, 2004
Pros
Cons
Summary
For the user that said he couldn't save an icon - this isn't true. Try DOUBLE-CLICKING on an icon, and watch what happens. The positive: it does a great job, and does it for free! The negative: the user-interface needs much more fine tuning. But so what - it's a very useful little utility.
Only extract 16 colors icons
February 24, 2004
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Summary
This tool only extract 16 colors icons, and not 256 colors icons nor 32 bits or XP style (48 bits) icons. One can only scan a folder and not select an individual EXE or DLL.
Great software if you know what your doing
January 20, 2004
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Summary
I just followed other peoples advice and saved as a ico extension. I then downloaded an ico to bmp converter and now I have an image I can use and edit.
Does exactly what I need.
December 17, 2003
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Summary
Not much to look at but does everything I need. Scans from selected directory through subs, picking up all sorts of images. Ability to interrupt scan. Can then copy 'a' selected image (one at a time) to designated location. Running on XT Pro without problems. Note: Must remember to add .ico extension to selected item's filename when saving (eg. Icon.ico).
Can view but can't save!! No Good
October 25, 2003
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Summary
The program finds the icons but when you try and save them, they don't work. The comments about 'copy and paste' from a reviewer are not correct

Developer’s Description

By Yankeeboy Software

Search for icons in files and save them in ICO format.

IconFinder is a very simple program to search for and extract icon resources in files. No installer or uninstaller is necessary since it is a single executable file that only uses standard system API calls.

This is a major rewrite to address issues with the user interface, of which many people have complained about.