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Freeware - Icon Tools

IconTweaker is a freeware application that allows you to customize all your Windows icons. Icons are one of main parts of the Windows interface, customizing them can make your desktop look better and can also improve the usability, because you can make it easier to recognize items. Using the IconTweaker theme system, designers can share their icons with other people. IconTweaker has an open XML-based theme format that can be extended using plug-ins. If you created an IconTweaker theme for your icons, you can be sure they can be used by everyone. Many themes with beautiful icons are already included and ready to use.

Folder Icon Changer can find the standard icon of a folder and replace it with any other icon of your choice. It is powerful and easy to use, you can change folder icons quickly and easily just by clicking several buttons.

Rainbow Folders is an easy to use program that allows you to change the color of your folder icons, you can choose any color you like for as many folders as you like. Support for 4 languages, Polish, English, German & Italian, doesn't modify any system files or Registry, so it will never lead to any system conflicts.

Customize your Start Button, loose that Windows flag! "Why on Earth did they use the Windows flag? I mean, I shouldn't have to salute the Microsoft banner whenever I need to get into my Start Menu." Hook99 enables the user to customize the start button. You can change or remove the text and replace the Windows flag on button with icon of your choice. Supports Windows icons, bitmaps and can extract icons from executables and libraries. Hook99 can also make the background of desktop icons captions transparent. You may also like to download a collection of additional icons (19KB).

The Iconshow program will show your icons from the current folder or from the folder you choose. If you have lots of icons in the same folder, they will be shown on multiple pages.If you double-click on an icon, and you have a program installed (such as Microangelo, an icon editing program) which is associated to files of the type "ico", then this program will be started and the selected icon opened in it.

Those who build Programs or Desktop-Themes will never have enough Glyphs and Icons. With the Icon Filter you have a starting place for your own Icon Collection within seconds because it extracts Icons from the EXE, DLL, OCX, CLX or even BMP files on your hard disk. Icon Filter then store the files as Icon file (*.ICO), Cursor File (*,.CUR) or converts them into Glyphs (Bitmap , *.BMP). Please keep in mind that some Icons are protected by copyright, you can only use them as a starting place for creating your own.

ActivIcons makes it simple to change properties for various icons on your Windows desktop and in Explorer, plus attributes for many other desktop settings. You can save and restore the desktop layout, repair corrupted icons, increase the size of the Windows icon cache to prevent future problems, and much more. You can substitute your own icons for the standard Windows icons and cursors. In fact, ActivIcons goes through your Registry and lists out all of the icons found there, so that you can change those as well. You can even use ActivIcons to display animated icons on your desktop, or make the icon text labels transparent.

Nicely organized site with 1000's of free icons, decorative caps, comics, buttons, bullets, bars, mozillas, butterflys, tips, much original work! There is also an extensive 'Help' section covering just about any "how-do-I?" icon question.

Iconoid is a Windows desktop icon manager, Iconoid is SillyWare - Freeware by people with too much time on their hands! Make icon backgrounds transparent, Select any color for icon backgrounds, Save and Restore Icon positions, Select any color for icon text, Dynamically hide icons, Quickly minimize all windows.

You may have noticed that sometimes the Desktop and Windows Explorer start to display the wrong Icons for some file types. Running RefreshEm when they do repairs the Windows Icon Cache so that the proper ones are immediately displayed. It does not stay in memory, immediately terminates after using it and has no visible Window. Just click or double click the Icon each time you want to refresh the icons.

Hide all desktop icons (including Recycle Bin, My Computer, Network Neighbourhood, etc) DeskSweeper is always visible in the Windows system tray for easy access and a single mouseclick is all you need to hide or view your desktop icons.

Icon Extracter extracts the default icon from any windows file. The Icons can be saved in the standard windows icon (*.ico) format (16x16 px or 32x32 px).

Small program which will change Windows system icons to it's own. `Start` button, `My computer`, Desktop, Default and Extension icons, 70 different icons included. After install you'll get absolutely new impression from Windows style. Uninstall changes everything back to the way it was! Also you'll be able to assign your own icons to specified extentions. Completely free without any kind of limitations.

Change the standard Windows folders icons to any other icon on your computer. Over 60 unique icons included with program. Please note: Myself and thousands of others run this on ME and Win2K with no problem but a few users have been unable to. I have no idea why so I'm unable to give support for those operating systems.