Extract Application Icon as .PNG File Free on Windows 11

 If you write a post about softwares, sometimes you want an image of application showing on your article.

 

This free app is easy to use, but you must find the application file not its shortcut. On macOS, there is a folder 'Applications'. In that folder there are no other files.

 

 

But on Windows, an application file is in the same folder where other files are.

The test steps - IconViewer 3.02.147.0
OS: Windows 11 Home
Download: https://www.botproductions.com/iconview/download.html

1. Go to the link above and download version for your operating system. I downloaded version 3.02 x64 edition. Then open the downloaded file.

Click 'Express Install' and follow instructions on screen.

2. This app is not the standalone app. It adds a tab 'Icons' in a window 'Properties'. So let's find the target application file.

On my Windows 11, I pressed a Window key to search 'firefox', then right click at the result and click 'Open file location'.

A shortcut of firefox was highlighted but in the picture above, you will see in the column 'Type' that it is a shortcut not application.

So right click at it and click 'Open file location'. You will be taken to where the application is.

Right click at the target application and select 'Properties'.

Go to tab 'Icons' and select an icon. Then select size in 'Device Images'

 

Click 'Save as'.

At 'Save as type', select 'PNG Image' at a drop-down list.

Name an image and save.

You will have PNG image.

In the picture below, there is no tab 'Icons' in a window 'Properties' of a shortcut of application 'Firefox'.

That's it for a nice little thing for software bloggers.

The test steps - IconViewer 3.02.147.0
OS: Windows 11 Home
Download: https://www.botproductions.com/iconview/download.html