Extracting Windows Icons from .exe [SOLVED]

spindle · Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 245

Is there a way to extract the icon from a Windows .exe to use for a launcher in KDE, Gnome, etc?

rutski89 · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject:

Yes, I'm pretty sure there is. I have a friend who knows exactly how to do it for sure, I'll get you guys in touch when he gets home. You might also want to know that if you try to "customize" an icon via "right-click --> properties" under windows you get a list of possiable immages that you can use for it. Those images have got to be stored somewhere, maybe even in as regular old .png file in the c:\Windows folder; I'd suggest scowering that while you wait.
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gimpel · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 5:39 pm Post subject:

if that exe is an executeable cabinet file (i think so as it contains .ico files i guess), you can use the tool cabextract.
if that works you'll have a bunch of .ico files. you can convert those using icotool from the icoutils package

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spindle · Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 245

Thanks for the quick reply people. I've been trying the icotool and cabextract with no luck.

No valid cabinets found with cabextract.

niskel · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject:

If you have wine, you could try RESHack. It's a windows tool to do things just like this. It extracts .ico files, among other things, from .exe and .dll files.

spindle · Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 245

ResHack worked wonderfully. Thanks for all your help, people. And in record time too.

This is what I did,
Ran ResHack under wine to extract the .ico file. Then used icotool to convert to .png. Moved .png to ~/.icons. Then referenced it with my launcher.

echo6 · Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 587

You can use the linux convert command also :-)