Extract .ico icon file from .exe with 7zip

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You can extract .ico icons from an exe with 7-zip!

this was almost useful!

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

awesome info, thank you :)

Cool trick! thanks

You can do of course do this on the command line using 7z with e and the -o flag while telling it to extract only the .rsrc/ICON path ...

Example: I just used in order to get my WINEskin Bookworm Adventures shortcut to look proper :)
7z e -oBWA-Icons /Users/conny/Applications/Wineskin/Bookworm\ Adventures\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/prefix/drive_c/Bookworm\ Adventures\ Volume\ 2/BookwormAdventuresVol2.exe .rsrc/ICON

EDIT:

yes I am on macOS, using the Homebrew package p7zip ...

I was using p7zip but as @WinkelCode mentioned, the 7-zip dot org implementation is also available through the sevenzip(aliased as 7zip) package.

@cbrunnkvist FYI, 7zip has an official Linux/Mac CLI port. The Brew bottle is called sevenzip and the binary is called 7zz. I just tested it and it works the same way for extracting icons.

My understanding is that the official port (sevenzip/7zz) is the preferred program nowadays as it is actively maintained, which is important for stuff like security issues that crop up every now and then.

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thanks!

oh my god...

I'm just...wow

had no f... idea 7zip could do this