BMP images can be used for the creating of program icons (.ico). This can be either done using a dedicated icon creation software, or with a proper graphics conversion program. Either way, icons are very small, so the quality of the original image does not matter much - at least for those very small icons, but bmp to ico conversion is certainly doable.
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Conversion of bmp file format to ico file format beta
Search for bmp to ico converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Standard Windows bitmap image to Icon image.
We have found 12 software records in our database eligible for .bmp to .ico file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert bmp to ico on Windows
Diagram Designer
A simple vector graphics editor
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from bmp file | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
to ico file | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned bmp to ico. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
Microsoft Paint
A graphics painting program distributed with Microsoft Windows
PhotoFiltre Studio
A complete image retouching program
FastStone Image Viewer
An image browser, converter and editor for Windows
ACDSee Photo Manager
Photo Manager is digital photo editor and manager for Windows
FastPictureViewer Professional
An image viewer for Windows
FormatFactory
A multifunctional media converter for Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert bmp to ico on macOS
Preview
A basic document and image viewer in Mac
Multiplatform software 
- convert bmp to ico on any platform
XnView MP
A popular utility for viewing and converting graphic files
XnConvert
A cross-platform batch image transcoder compatible with 500 picture image formats
On-line services software 
- convert bmp to ico on web
Photopea
A web based graphics editor
Picture Resize Free Online Images Converter
An online graphics converter and resizer
Additional links: Open bmp file, Open ico file
BMP
Files with bmp extension can be commonly found as bitmap images. One of the traditional bitmap formats.
ICO
Files with ico extension can be typically found as icons, most notably program icons for Windows executables. A single .ico file contains one or more icons in different pixel sizes.
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