Extract text from TIP files
To convert your TIP file to another format, you need TuneUp Utilities or other System software.
To convert other file formats to the "Icon Theme Package" file type, you need software like TuneUp Utilities or a similar tool.
A .tip file is most frequently encountered as a TuneUp Icon Package, a legacy customization format used by software like TuneUp Utilities (now AVG) and Stardock IconPackager. These files act as proprietary containers for Windows desktop themes, locking away valuable ICO, PNG, and cursor assets inside a single archive. The primary issue users face is that modern Windows versions (10/11) do not natively support this format, rendering the icon packs unusable without the specific, often outdated, software.
For icon packages, the practical goal is usually extraction rather than direct execution. Users often convert these to ZIP archives to manually inspect and retrieve the image files for use in Adobe Photoshop or web projects.
However, the .tip extension is ambiguous. It is also used by Tally Solutions for Tally ERP 9 data, by Train Sim World for game configuration, and by Apache Lucene for search indexing. Unlike the icon packages, these variants are strictly data-centric and often binary-encoded, making them unsuitable for standard image conversion. For Tally files, the intent is often converting financial data to PDF or XLSX for reporting, which typically requires the original ERP environment to export correctly.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TIP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted TIF, PDF, CONTACT, JNT and ETL files.
If you want to convert TIP file to TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD, LOCK or PID, you can use TuneUp Utilities or similar software from the "Windows Icon Theme Package" 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 TuneUp Utilities or another comparable tool in the "Windows Icon Theme Package" category.
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.