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Extract .ico icon file from .exe with 7zip
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You can extract .ico icons from an exe with 7-zip!
@tomcass240
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how?

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@tomcass240 To be honest, I don't remember posting this gist or what the context was. However, I believe you can open an exe as an archive with 7zip to find the icon file.

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WinkelCode commented Jun 27, 2022 •
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Thank you for posting this, I needed to get some icons for my new Streamdeck and after a lot of searching (and not wanting to install another application that needs admin rights) I finally found this.

For example here is the VS Code icon: C:\Users\{MY USERNAME}\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe\.rsrc\1033\ICON\2.ico There is also a file called 1 which seems to be a PNG according to the header.

Edit: Seems like the best way to get the best icon is to find the largest file. Numbering is unreliable, Windows Terminal for instance has 0 as its lowest resolution. Files without extensions seem to be PNGs. I think the PNGs should generally be the best resolution, in VS Code's case it's smaller than the largest icon, but I suspect that's because of better compression.

@kanjieater
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this was almost useful!

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wiks1skid commented Mar 28, 2024 •
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its useful, yall really need a tutorial to download 7zip and right click on an exe ,open archive and go to icons?
(use this as a tutorial 💀)

btw the files with out extensions in the end are png files

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awesome info, thank you :)

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