Is there a way to find the size of an icon in bytes..?

The file with the extension .ico stores the icons and it has a
directory field which tells the bytes occupied by the icon's data.
But the question is that how can we extraxt the information?
is there ant software or some built in
fuctionality in xp through which we can access this information??
plz help...

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Resource Hacker. Find the icon or bitmap in the library, and RH will show you that image plus the byte size.

Can u tell me where is the library of icon as i want to know the size of windows icons. I know a file acwizard.ico in vista which stores the icons.
And plz tell, what is RH?

RH is resource hacker. Easy to find on the net.
Unzip to a new folder, dclick the .exe to start it, and drag the windows file into it to open it. Two files with icons are explorer.exe and shell32.dll. There are resources on the web which detail the icons in those files.
Good luck.

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