Free Icon Tool is a simple, small and free program that allows users to view, extract, and save icons from various file types (like EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL, and CIL), developed by ZXT2007 Software from China. Then user can save the extracted application icons and images to various common image file formats.

IcoFX is a full-featured professional icon & cursor editor that integrates icons' extraction, production, modification and conversion in one place. It builds in variety of brush tools and more than 40 filters. Also, just like Adobe Photoshop, it supports the concept of layer, batch extraction, icon export and other common image editing operations.

Resource Hacker (formerly as ResHacker or ResHack) is a lightweight free app similar to eXeScope, used to decompile/recompile, view, modify, add and remove the resources (icon, bitmap, cursor, menus, dialog, string table, message table, accelerator, Delphi form and version information...) in both 32-bit & 64-bit Windows executable programs and other related files (*. EXE, *. DLL, *. CPL, *. OCX).