Extract Icon from Windows .lnk (shortcut) file

Question

I need to extract the icon from a windows shortcut (.lnk) file (or find the icon file, if it\'s just pointed to by the shortcut).

I\'m not asking about extracting ic

Answer 1

To add a few more resources to this, because presumeably you wan't the Application's icon and not icon that has the shortcut in the bottom left corner:

• Here's how to parse the LNK format using the WinApi's IShellLink
• An IShellLink definition
• The LNK format if you don't want to use IShellLink to parse it