Iconus

There are many tools Windows comes with, but an icon viewer is not one of them. That is why many developers tried to create dedicated software utilities, such as Iconus, that can open entire icon libraries, allowing you to explore the icons and save the ones you like most.

Iconus is easily deployed, as it requires no installation. In other words, you can launch it by simply double clicking on the main executable file.

It doesn't matter how large the icon library is: by default, Iconus opens the shell32.dll library, which includes more than 300 items.

Other common libraries Iconus knows about are found in a dedicated menu of the application, and you can choose the one to load with a click. This list can also be edited to add new libraries.

Aside from system icon libraries, Iconus can also load external libraries. It enables you to load DLL, EXE, ICL and ICO files to see his icon collection. Individual icons you like can be easily saved, or you can simply copy the icon path to the clipboard.

Iconus is not an icon editor in itself, but it can be configured to link to an editor and send an icon to that particular software. Additional options enable you to keep it on top of all the other opened windows.

Iconus can extract single icons from a library, which makes it a valuable tool to programmers how need to find out the index of a particular icon. Other than that, it serves as a handy icon viewer, which can pass an icon to a particular editor, if needed.