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Icon extraction on Windows involves retrieving icons from executable files, DLLs, or legacy 16-bit software. On Windows Vista and later, native support for 16-bit icon display was removed, requiring third-party tools to extract and view those icons. The BeCyIcon Grabber is one such tool that can extract icons from 16-bit programs, allowing users to access icons from older software like Windows 3.1 games. This tag covers methods and tools for extracting icons from various sources on Windows, including handling compatibility issues with modern operating systems.
  1. Andrea Borman

    Windows 8 How To Extract Icons From 16 Bit software On Windows 8.

    As you know when you run a 16 bit program such as Windows 3.1 games on Windows Vista,7 or 8, it does not display the icon. This is because support for 16 bit icon display has been removed from Windows Vista onwards. So you have to choose one of the icons in the "Shell32.dill" folder. But there...
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