Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TIP file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TIP to another file type
To convert TIP Theme packages to another format, you need IconPackager or other Compressed software.
Convert a file to TIP
To convert other file formats to the "Icon Theme Package" file type, you need software like IconPackager or a similar tool.
About TIP files
The .tip file extension is most commonly a Windows icon theme package created by TuneUp Utilities or IconPackager. It contains customized icons used to modify the visual appearance of the Windows operating system. Alternatively, it is often just a standard ZIP compressed archive storing general files, or an index file for Apache Lucene. You can open icon-based .tip files using IconPackager by Stardock or legacy TuneUp Utilities software. If it is a compressed archive, tools like WinZip or 7-Zip will extract it. The main disadvantage of the .tip format is its reliance on outdated or highly specific software. Legacy TuneUp Utilities is obsolete, and paying for dedicated icon management software just to view graphics is inefficient. Furthermore, because .tip files are essentially renamed archives, they are unrecognized by default Windows tools, causing confusion and preventing easy extraction. For accessing the internal icons, convert or extract the .tip file to a standard ZIP archive. To use the images on the web, convert the extracted ICO files to PNG or WEBP. If it is a generic data archive, converting it to ZIP makes it instantly accessible on any modern operating system without third-party tools.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TIP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TIP file to TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD, LOCK or PID, you can use IconPackager or similar software from the "Icon Theme Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to TIP, try IconPackager or another comparable tool in the "Icon Theme Storage" category.
The TIP Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TIP converter.