Icon Finder General

Posted by Jason on

February 18, 2008

As I am sure you know you can change your desktop icons by right-clicking on them and selecting Properties and clicking the Change Icon button, but what do you change it to? Of course you can go on line and search through the thousands of free and paid for icon banks but you may be surprised at how many icons there are sprinkled around your PC.

A freeware utility called IconsExtract managed to find no less than 18,000 icons and cursors on my office PC, and this is on a machine only three months after a full re-install! The program is very easy to use, just tell it where to look for icons, it could be just a folder or a sub folder, or your whole C: dive, tough be warned, searching an entire drive can take a few minutes and use a lot of resources, so go and make a cup of tea. When it has finished you can save selected icons, or copy and paste single icon to the clipboard.