A great tool for creating icons and cursors

I have a program called "IrfanView" that I downloaded off zdnet.com in the downloads section. It's free and It is a must have for programers. It easily converts almost and picture into another format, including ".ico". If you want, just for the heck of it, you can go back into IrfanView and open the icon. File->Rename and change the extention to ".cur" and poof you have a windows cursor file. I just had to tell everyone about this great program.

IrfanView is already well known around these parts. :)

for icons I use Imagicon, then ResHack.

Yep, same here. IrfanView does have other uses, though.

Visual Studio's icon editor does me! :)

Dabz

www.snidesoft.com

Windows can even use standard .BMP's as icons - simply have a .bmp of the right resolution, and rename to .ico

I'm guessing that won't work in win98? I could try it myself but really couldn't be arsed. :P

works in 95/98 as well... The only catch of using a BMP instead of a real .ico, is that you can't store multiple icons inside a BMP while a .ico can hold more than one.