Open Icon Libraries

IconBook can extract icons from ANI, CUR, DLL, EXE, ICO and ICL icon libraries when in 32*32 icon Size, and from DLL, EXE and ICO icon libraries when in 16*16 Icon Size. The icon libraries may be located on any removable, fixed and network drive. Even extract icons contained in ZIP archives. Extracted icons are treated the same way in the results list as the IconBook icons. You can add extracted icons to IconBook with your own keywords. Not the actual icon is added, but a reference to the icon. There are two procedures;

By File
  • Choose File, Open by File or the appropriate button submenu.
  • Use the file type dropdown list to show only the library types you want to see. Hold down {CTRL} or {SHIFT} to select multiple files in the Open dialog. If select a ZIP archive to open, IconBook will retrieve icons from all available icon library types contained in the ZIP archive.
By Folder
  • Choose File, Open by Folder or the appropriate button submenu.
  • Extracting icons by Folder enables you to scan all the subfolders and/or only scan the icon library types you want to be scanned by setting a filter with the appropriate check boxes.
  • You can also select folders across networks.
  • Use Options to associate IconBook with Icon Libraries to open files by double-clicking.
  • Drop multiple files from the Explorer onto the IconBook shortcut on your Desktop and IconBook starts and opens the dropped files.
  • IconBook can even scan for icons in libraries which are contained in ZIP archives. Just check the 'Scan in ZIP archives' option.

When an extracted icon is clicked, the 'All Icon Formats' window will show all icon formats in an icon.