What's New
Version 4.20
  • Additional section which shows all icon formats in one icon. The formats can be saved as a  separate ICO, BMP, GIF, JPG or all formats in one ICO again.
  • 5000 icons described by keywords in the 16*16 format. IconBook now supports 32*32 and 16*16 icons. When scanning for icons, only the selected icon format is added to the result window. Each format has it's own (custom) keywords, settings and references section.
Version 4.15
  • Compatible with Windows Millennium Edition
  • Logo and internet addresses changed to www.2beesoft.com.
Fixes build 4.15
  • Change Any Folder always enabled, no check for Windows version 98 or higher of Internet Explorer 4 or higher
  • Some icons came up with no transparency, this has been solved
  • Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts are now retrieved from the Current User and All Users since both are used to build the Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts.
  • Optimized Properties window resulting in error free usage.
  • When saving as a GIF the standard Windows palette was used. This sometimes resulted in optimized dithered GIF icon. IconBook now uses an 256 color palette with an exact match of all colors used (including transparency), thus preventing a dithered image if the icon doesn't exceed 256 colors.
  • In the Windows Add/Remove Programs all IconBook versions were mentioned. Now only IconBook will be mentioned. All other obsolete entries can be removed from the Add/Remove Programs list. Not by de-installation, but by removal of the registry entries by a third party software tool or by hand with Regedit by removing some entries under key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft
    \Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\. Look for ST6UNST #X where X are the concurrent IconBook installations. Remove all ST6UNST #X Keys with a Subkey DisplayName 'IconBook 4.xx',  but not the entry with description 'IconBook'.
Version 4.14
  • Save icons as JPEG (JPG) or transparent CompuServe GIF file for use on web pages!.
  • Scanning for icons now also scans for icon libraries in ZIP archives. All actions can be performed on icons extracted from ZIP files as if they were IconBook icons, except creating References.
  • IconBook comes up with the folder where an icon was last saved when saving icons.
Fixes build 4.14
  • Retrieving the shortcuts from the Desktop sometimes came up 1 short.
  • Correct 'Origin' text when searching for shortcuts on the Desktop and Start Menu.
  • All graphics in this help file show correctly.
  • Canceling a 'Save As' sometimes resulted in saving an icon in the current folder anyway.
Version 4.13
  • Full support for Windows 2000.
  • Create icons in all standard icons sizes (16x16, 24x24, 32,x32, 48x48, 72x72) and color depths (2, 4, 8 ,16, 24 and 32 bit).
  • Help in HTML Help format, better integrated with IconBook.
Fixes build 4.13
  • No error nr. 5 when starting IconBook in Windows 2000.
  • The DLL which makes the shortcuts does not require msvbvm50.dll anymore thus preventing ActiveX errors.
  • Correct detection of Windows custom folder names in non-English Windows versions.
  • The Shortcuts Description is also copied to the new shortcut when changing shortcut icons.
  • Subtimer DLL updated for error free shell extension functioning.
  • Scanning for icons also scans folders with names in capitals.
Version 4.12:
  • New preset searches in the left pane for your system icons, system cursors (including cursor themes), shortcut icons and file type icons. From here any of these icons can be replaced by any icon of your choice by drag & drop, including the cursors.
  • The IconCreator now supports creation of cursors. IconBook will ask you to define the Hotspot while saving cursors up to high color depth.
  • Change Any Folder icon if you have Windows 98 or Internet Explorer 4 or higher.
  • Organize your Favorite icons. Create Favorite icons and place them in folders to categorize your favorites From within IconBook by drag & drop.
  • More Drag & Drop operations are supported. Dropping files and folders from the Windows Explorer onto a white area of the right results pane will let IconBook retrieve any icons present in the folders (and subfolders) and/or files.
  • Add IconBook to the ‘Send To’ menu item, visible when right clicking on files and folders in the Windows Explorer. Only one instance of IconBook will be started and any icons present in the selected folders (and subfolders) and/or files are retrieved by IconBook.
  • The IconBook Icon Properties window is replaced by the standard Windows File Properties where possible.
  • If the results consists of more than one page, a red led will be flashing next to the page numbering to draw your attention to the fact that there are more pages to view.
  • A user definable icon double click action has been added.
  • Start your favorite icon editor with the selected IconBook icon opened.
  • After typing a keyword you can also start searching with <Enter>. IconBook will find the first matching keyword and it’s icons.
  • Specify the Mask color when copying icons to the clipboard. It is not necessary to change the back color of the results pane for this.
  • When changing system, favorite, file type, folder or shortcut icons, IconBook will replace the icon source file with the new one if the old icon resource file was created by IconBook. No unused icon resource files are left on your system.
  • Rebuild the Windows Icon Cache from IconBook.
Fixes build 4.12:
  • Problems with changing back to Windows system default icons have been solved. Especially with Windows NT4.
  • Minor index file improvements.
Fixes build 4.1
  • Associating IconBook with icon libraries has been thoroughly reviewed and improved. I.e. associating IconBook with *.ani, *.ico and *.cur files will still enable you to view the icons and cursors in the Windows Explorer; these are not replaced by the IconBook icon.
Version 4.01
  • New Microsoft Explorer style. View up to 200 icons at a time and sort them like you sort files like in the MS Explorer.
  • The animated icons can now be saved as real ANI’s, so you can use them as an animated cursor.
  • 3000 new high quality icons, almost all 256- and High Color.
  • The Import function of version 3 has been replaced by the IconCreator. You can now paste pictures from the clipboard and save it as a transparent icon.
  • A tree has been added with more preset search groups.
  • File, About... shows the icon resources which are present.
  • IconBook keywords list is updated real time when adding or deleting keywords from the custom keywords list.
  • Extract icons from icon libraries (ANI, CUR, DLL, EXE, ICL ICO) by specific multiple files you select, or by selecting a folder with subfolder. Extracting icons by Folder enables you to set filters to extract icons from the icon library types you want to scan.
  • Associate icon libraries (ANI, CUR, DLL, ICL and ICO) with IconBook. Double-clicking such an icon library in the Windows Explorer will open IconBook with the icons from the icon library.
  • Drop multiple files from the Windows Explorer onto the IconBook shortcut on your desktop and IconBook will start and open the icon dropped libraries.
  • Help file with standard Windows 95/98 Help Contents file.
Fixes build 4.02
  • Right clicking on an icon or white space in the results window will bring up a context sensitive menu like in the Windows Explorer.
  • The results windows gets the focus after a search. The arrow keys and PgUp/PgDn keys can be used immediately to navigate through the icons.
  • When there is an error while starting IconBook, the splash screen will be removed and the error will become visible.
  • Several shortcut keys have been added, i.e. Ctrl+P (previous page) and Ctrl+N (next page).
  • The ‘U’ in the alphabetic preset search tree works correctly.
Fixes build 4.01
  • Only unique icons are shown when using a preset search. Paging now starts at the first page.
  • Menus Go, Home Page and Go, Mail now really go somewhere.
  • Help file and icon index file updated.
  • Zooming of a selected icon now shows with the correct back color.
Fixes version 4.0 pre-release
  • The ‘50003’ error because of an updated OLEAUT32.DLL is solved. Version 4.0 uses the updated dll that comes with the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime in vbrun60.exe, or a newer version in i.e. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.
  • Saving icons without specifying a file extension in the filename could result in no saved file at all. This is solved in this version.
  • The animated icon player now also shows animated icons with only two frames.
Version 3.0
  • Optimized index reduces search times a 1000%.
  • Also saves the 256 and High Color correctly.
  • Extract icons and add references to these icons with your own keywords.
  • 4000 icons added which totals the amount of icons to 12.000.
  • Scrollbar to jump to a specific page.
  • MS Office like toolbar.
  • Change/create shortcut icons by drag & drop.
  • Links to e-mails and homepages are now Hotlinks.
  • Supports adding more IconBook icon libraries without the need to download the whole program.
Version 2.0
  • Translated from Dutch to English.
  • Transparency added again to all the icons.
  • Text index file to prevent the use of large obligatory Visual Basic database engine files to keep the IconBook downloads as small as possible.
  • Icons stored as bitmaps for personal use only
Version 1.0
  • Icons stored as bitmaps for personal use only.
  • Uses a database to store 3 keywords per icon.