how to extract windows explorer common Toolbar Icons

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The icons you indicate in your picture are indeed contained within a
"library" (dll file) and you can use the free utility "Resource Hacker"
[ResHacker.exe] to view and / or save any part of the "resource sections"
of any [most] Win32 executables (including *.exe *.dll *.ocx *.cpl files).

The Window's file that the icons in your picture are found, is called :
Shell32.dll - found in your [C:\WINDOWS\system32] directory.

Just point your "Resource Hacker" utility at
[C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll], then scroll down to the "Icon Group"
section and when you find one of the icons you are looking for, click "Save
[Icon Group : X : 1033]" (X here stands for the icon index number) from the
top menus.


The free "Resource Hacker" utility is available to download from :

The "Resource Hacker" homepage.
http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

Just click scroll down to the end of the page to find a link to download
from a site nearest your location Version 3.4.0 (541.89K)

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
 
|
| Just point your "Resource Hacker" utility at
| [C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll], then scroll down to the "Icon Group"
| section and when you find one of the icons you are looking for, click
"Save
| [Icon Group : X : 1033]" (X here stands for the icon index number) from
the
| top menus.
|

The images are in shell32.dll, but not as icons.
They're bitmap resources #214-217. Basically
they're toolbar skins, not separate icons. If someone
wants to use them as icons they'd need to be
edited in an icon editor.

For the bitmaps, ResHacker is a good place to start. For
anyone who actually wants to extract icons, ResHacker
can be used, or any icon editor should work. I wrote a
simple VBScript some time ago that's even easier. It will
extract all icons -- single or compound, from any PE file
(EXE, DLL, etc.) by just dropping the file onto the script:

http://www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.php5#iconextr

From the download, open the file named Extract Whole
Icons.vbs. Open that in Notepad, go down to about line
14, and edit that line to set a valid folder path for extraction.
Once that's done, just drop any file onto the script to have
all icons extracted.
 
You can slice your image in Fireworks or Photoshop. If you know nothing
about slicing an image, then use snagIT or Jing to copy the relevant
icon and save it as png, gif, jpg etc etc. It is not a rocket science
that requires days of discussion here. If you are prepared to buy these
icons then let me know so that I can put them on my site and you can pay
by paypal before downloading.
 
| If you are prepared to buy these...

Similar things are already available for free:

http://www.small-icons.com/

I also have a collection in a folder I named
"iconstore". They came free with no license,
but now I can't find where I got them.
 
Always very interested in expanding my [limited] knowledge in VBS scripts -
so will definitely download and thoroughly investigate yours...

Also, like to mention I have already extracted all the icons from the Win
XP file - Shell32.dll - into a self-extracting cabinet file that will place
them all into a single folder when executed (clicked-on).

You can download it here :
http://www.4shared.com/file/TrUFhQXw/Sh32Ico.html

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
 
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