Thanks to all commenters for the mentioned alternatives, as well as the difficulties with and shortcomings of (especially the volume of reg entries) this app. Some of you spent some serious time and energy. I thought this looked intriguing, however will now give it a pass. Thanks anyway, GOTD.

I have been a programmer since the year dot - the program we use to access resources included in files is Resource Hacker, which is free.

You can find it here: http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/

The program is very easy to use, but you still must know what you are doing...

Good program! (Windows Vista Home Edition, 32 bit version) -- It might not work for 64 bit programs if it's old code, but seems to work OK for me. I ran it on an uninstaller program that I picked at random and got a couple of icons out of it.

I thought I'd give it a try, not that I have much use for it. The install ran properly, but the closing action (usually set to open a program or website) was flagged by AVG's Identity protection. It does get false detections, but only when a program is trying to insert itself into a critical area, record information (keylogger, screenlogger, etc.) or trying to hide it's communication over the Internet. I see no reason this program should be doing any of these, so I'll pass.

Wiped via cache image restore. I don't need a program I'll probably never use which I can't fully trust.

Given the description, I too wonder what this programme is really useful for.

Have you considered FoxySpider (as the name suggests it crawls over all kind of things)

- video files [mpg|mpeg|mov|avi|wmv|asf|mp4|rm] etc.,

- audio files [av|mp3|mid|midi|wma|ra|ram] etc.,

- image files [jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp|tif] etc., though it can tend to be repetitive.

- document files [pdf|doc|docx|xls|xlsx|ppt|pptx|pps|ppsx]etc.

- It has a section for ‘Other files’ but I confess I’ve not tried it so you’d need to read the notes to find out what extensions are accepted.

Mostly for internet sources and FoxySpider is a Firefox Addon: now free to use but donations accepted. I bought it years ago and found it very useful on my own websites and shared server.

I've found it every bit as useful as heavy duty legal programmes such as Snagit. You can alter the size of thumbnails, the skin colour and choose later to download results or save as an HTML Gallery/document.

Don't be doing anything illegal though; not what it's designed for.

Billy

Tested previous version to grab the music from small exe. Failed. Uninstalled.
Should be renamed to "Some media grabber", not "All".
And with more than tsousand entries to the registry this code writing way is absolutely inacceptable for such simple utility.

A commercial program to harvest resources from executable and dll files?
This is a market with a few freeware alternatives, among other places, the RCE Collaborative Tools and its Resource Editors section is a good place to start, and so I got somewhat interested.
To stand out, it has to offer something a little extra I thought and so I wanted to put i through a few tests.
Before starting out, I checked the about box and noticed it said "standard" version? Checking it out, I was initially sceptical from the fact that the program is split to two versions and .ogg, .mid, .xm soundfiles only being included with the Advanced version or in other words a resource grabber with limitations?

Oh well, let's see if the program is up to what it claims.
For my test, I did choose Die v0.95 as I know the executable includes a few easter eggs in the form of unexpected bitmap graphics which are not in the resource section of the file.

Running the program, navigating to the DiE folder and hitting scan directory button surprised me though, shot1 - Only 8 icons? shot2 Hmm, that was strange, I know for sure there's more than the 8 icons it found in the die.exe file, besides, the icon is in the resource section and there are loads of programs that can extract that. Investigating this using a tad more advanced freeware tool, CFF Explorer revealed that the file is packed with UPX. This has to be the single most known packer for any and all Windows dll/exe files. I would expect a commercial program of this kind to support unpacking standard (non-protected) UPXed programs on the fly, but alas it does not.
I downloaded UPX and unpacked the whole directory manually using the UPX packer program. The size of the folder increased from about 8 to about 21 megabytes after unpacking.

Same procedure as above, scanning the folder once more finally produced the desired result, shot3 and shot4 / The rest of the found files, the PNG files are from the QT4 dll support files and so is not interesting for this test.

Conclusion
The program does what it claims, but as I see it, there's only one uncrippled version and it costs a whopping $50 to be able to extract ordinary and hidden resources from files. However, it does support extracting resources from bot 64 and 16 bit executables in addition to 32 bit, so for some I guess it may be worth worth the price, but I still think it is odd that it does not unpack UPX on the fly. As a final note from a programmer's perspective, not being able to substitute resources in your own executables may be a negative aspect, but then again, programmers would probably not need the kind of functionality included too often anyway.

2 cents in the fountain

I got the "find in file" to work. Apparently the files I was checking didn't have anything in them.

I had this program from a previous Give Away and lost it when my hard drive crashed and I had to reinstall Windows. I used it and am happy to get it back again. I can't get the "find in file" to work but the "find in folder" does work so I can use that.

@givonni I too miss his review. XP-man is also missing. Well!!! i will appreciate @karl for her dedication. About today's give away, it's not of my use and I haven't found any thing interesting in the software which makes me try it.

Does anyone know what the difference is between the “standard” and any other version ---->

http://www.optwinsoftware.com/grabber_buy.htm

This link :- shows the difference between "Standard" and "Advance" versions. Easy enough to find with a few clicks of the mouse.

http://www.optwinsoftware.com/grabber_buy.htm

Dual-boot here! Installed on both of my physical partitions -Win8.1.3 & Win10 Build 10130- no problems so far. Found a few icons - but did not find any sounds. Does anyone know what the difference is between the "standard" and any other version - maybe that's why I am not finding sounds. No freeze-ups here - keeping fingers crossed. Only suggestion would be keeping the "working guts of the program - including the word menu" and update the GUI maybe with some colours & different borders. Small things like that really do affect the bottom-end. Thanks GOTD & All Media Grabber for today's offering. c u tomorrow HAGD

i miss when people used to give really good free alternatives to the offered software. The only reason i read every day is because sometimes you give away some really good software I can use. let givonni come back!!!!

I really dont know what this program is aimed for. I` would be really happy if somebody could this explain. So this is for grab image files from .exe and .dll extensions? But are they image files in files as with .exe and .dll extensions?
This program has not a really large utility I suppose.

After clicking on setup.exe for All Media Grabber it tried to connect to Giveawayoftheday.com to "check giveaway availability". This failed, displaying the following error message:
"Failed to connect. Please try again later."

My internet connection is working fine with no problems accessing any site.

Has anyone else encountered this problem today or in the past who could advise?

Many thanks in anticipation.

Installed this program and too my surprise it couldn't grab what I needed. My computer had to be rebooted twice cause of program error.... Uninstalled...Thanks anyways GAOTD.

Karl is right, installed pretty easily with a very old interface, looks a little like win 2000. I've tried to grab some mp3 files from a microsoft office game, to no avail. The program crashed when I tried to save them.

Uninstalled via Advanced Uninstaller, I should have followed Karl's way of testing this out dated program with toolwiz.

Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1.3 Pro 64 bit system. Many registry changes due to an Active-X (ocx)

A (Greek?) company without name and address. The HTML header is Fotis Software. We had a previous version AllMedia Grabber Standard 6.2 on May 18, 2014. Here are the old reviews:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/allmedia-grabber-6-2/

Here is the changelog:
http://www.optwinsoftware.com/allmedia_grabber__changelog.htm

If you have problems with this program, run it as Administrator.

An old fashioned resizable interface opens. The software is on the market since 2007. You select a file, search for bitmaps (icons), and save these.

This is done without problems. Maybe you have a real use for such tools, besides any question about copyright.
If you want a specific icon from a DLL, this is surely the right tool for you - if you didn't find a better icon on the I-Net.

A scan of the setup file (Movavi) found two icons. They could be extracted, the result shown as HTML file and saved.
http://i.imgur.com/zIyyCEV.png

For me the time is history, when I searched for a specific right-arrow or a thumbs-down icon. But maybe you like the specific icons of Microsoft Windows. If you want to extract thousands of Window Icons, search shell32.dll in the windows system folder.
http://i.imgur.com/awNJzdL.png


Uninstalled via reboot, have a good start in this new week!