Thank you. I downloaded and tried it before and it wasn't working. I guess you have to do "Save As" after you've deleted a resource and replace existing file instead of just "Save". Wierd, but it works. Thanks a million.

I think a lot of these programs are cute that have their own icons, but the skull and crossbones crap really gets annoying to me after a while and would like to tear the icon off of them.

Aside from hex-editing, does anyone know of a good free tool that strips the icon from the executable to make the application size smaller?

Yeah, this program attatched does just the job =). It's called ResHack. Enjoy.

heres another one that does the same thing jst az easy called Exescope. just open the Application [unencrypted & win32] only. then click on resource/icon/whatever

Click File Export and export it to My Documents\Pictures\Where-ever

and there you have it.

Get Exescope from here

Enjoy!

Icon Cool.

i did it this way:
i opened the executable file you need with reshack and opened the icon register. then rightclick end replace. in the replace windows, open the file %windir%/system32/shell32.dll

there you'll find the standart .exe symbol

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