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# Known issues: low GitHub API rate limit (60 requests / hour)
[CmdletBinding()]
param (
	[parameter(Position=0)]
	[string[]] $name,
	[switch] $download, # experimental
	[switch] $portable, # download option (Windows only)
	#[ValidateSet('windows','linux','mac','warm','larm')]
	#[string] $platform = 'windows', # experimental; windows,linux,mac...; download option
	#[switch] $force, # download option

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function New-Culture ([string]$name, [int]$lcid, [switch]$list) {
	if ($list) {
		return [cultureinfo]::GetCultures([System.Globalization.CultureTypes]::AllCultures)
	}
	if (-not $name -and $lcid -lt 1) {return Get-Culture}
	if (-not $name) {$name = 'zzzzzzzzz'}
	[cultureinfo]::GetCultures([System.Globalization.CultureTypes]::AllCultures) | 
	Where-Object {$_.name -eq $name -or $lcid -eq $_.lcid}
} # END New-Culture

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import struct
import ctypes
import re

user32 = ctypes.WinDLL(r'C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll')

icofile = r'<filepath_to_your_icofile>' # set your file name!!!
print(icofile)
with open(icofile, 'rb') as f:
	data = f.read()

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<#
.SYNOPSIS
ICO file reader.
.DESCRIPTION
An AIO function to read and export icons stored within .ICO files. Read-Ico can export high-quality icons of all sizes, and all color formats to a number of formats, including ico, png, jpg, and gif.
Key features:
- Multisize high-quality ICO
- Ability to create a separate ICO for each size at once
- ICO integrity check
- Ability interactively select image file

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function Convert-IcoToPng ([string]$icofile) {
	# Runtime validation
	if ($PSVersionTable.PSEdition -eq 'Core') {return}
	if (-not $icofile -or -not (Test-Path $icofile)) {return}
	# ICO validation
	$signature = Get-Content -Path $icofile -Encoding Byte -TotalCount 6 -ErrorAction 0
	if (([System.BitConverter]::ToInt32(($signature[0..3]),0)) -ne 0x10000) {return}
	if (([System.BitConverter]::ToInt16(($signature[4,5]),0)) -gt 1) {return} # single-size

	Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime

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function New-PercentBar {
	[cmdletbinding()]
	param (
		[parameter(ValueFromPipeline)]
		[alias('inputobject')][decimal[]] $value, 
		[alias('range')][decimal] $scale, 
		[int] $barlength,
		[consolecolor] $color,
		[switch] $hint
	)

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function Show-Progress {
	param (
		[scriptblock] $scriptblock,
		[int] $width,
		[consolecolor] $color,
		[string] $type, # growth | fill | bounce | tide
		[switch] $passthru
	)
	if (-not $scriptblock) {return}
	if ($width -lt 1) {$width = 10}

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function prompt {
	function Get-LastCmdTime {
		$diffPromptTime = $null 
		$lastCmd = Get-History -Count 1
		if ($lastCmd -ne $null) {
			$diff = $lastCmd.EndExecutionTime - $lastCmd.StartExecutionTime
			$msfractional = $diff.TotalMilliseconds - [Math]::Truncate($diff.TotalMilliseconds)
			$ms = $msfractional + $diff.Milliseconds
			if ($diff.Hours) {'{0}h:{1}m:{2}s:{3:N2}ms' -f $diff.Hours,$diff.Minutes,$diff.Seconds,$ms}
			elseif ($diff.Minutes) {'{0}m:{1}s:{2:N2}ms' -f $diff.Minutes,$diff.Seconds,$ms}

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# Windows Powershell doesn't have [System.Drawing.Icon]::ExtractIcon method
# Neither ExtractIcon* functions from user32.dll have a parameter associated with size
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing
$Path = 'C:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\PowerShell.exe'

function import-icon ([string]$file, [int]$index=0, [int[]]$sizes) {
	#if ([version]'7.6' -gt $PSVersionTable.PSVersion) {return}
	if (-not $file) {return} # -or -not (Test-Path $file -ErrorAction 0)
	if ($sizes.count) { # normalize sizes
		$sizes = @($sizes | Where-Object {$_ -gt 7 -and $_ -lt 257} | Sort-Object -Unique)

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/*
SYNOPSIS    : Icon Reader for C#
DESCRIPTION : A utility class that extracts the list of all icons handles (all sizes, all color counts) for a binary file like DLL, EXE, or ICO
UTILITIES   : GetTotal, ImportIcons, ExportIcons, Dispose
FEATURES    : Export: by size and index, multisize icons, split icon groups by size
VERSION     : 4.0
LASTUPDATE  : 2026-Sep-5
LINK        : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_(file_format)
NOTES       : Only builtin sizes are exported; GIF,BMP,JPEG always have the background in black
BACKLOG     :