Extract icon from EXE file in ubuntu

$ wrestool -x -t14 TARGET.EXE -o result.icon
$ convert result.icon result.png

why -t14 ?

wrestool -l TARGET.EXE
-> shows a list of resources included in TARGET.EXE file, where type=14 (type=group_icon) is the icon image we want to extract.

-x option means extract
-o where to place extracted files

olym opt

-start=s,mMets

Let google desktop find MS doc, xls, or ppt files

sudo apt-get install wv
sudo apt-get install catdoc

http://desktop.google.com/support/linux/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76816