Does anyone know of a good, easy to use program to convert .jpg's to
.ico's? I downloaded two that had no instructions on how to work them!

Get Irfanview at www.irfanview.com.

Open jpeg.

Go Save As...

at bottom of window use drop down to select ICO file.

Save in directory.

It's just that easy!!!!

Talk about de ja vu... I have been trying to figure out how to do this
the past couple of weeks. Both Paint Shop Pro 7 and Photoshop 7 wont
let you save as ms-icon .ico. And I was just about to ask this exact
question if I couldn't figure it out within a couple days.

I had never really heard of or used IrfanView, but when I read this
post I immediatly downloaded it. Between the going to the site,
downloading the file, and installing it, it took less than one minute.
ONE MINUTE. I cant think of any other program that downloads that
seemlessly.

So, http://www.irfanview.com A+++ a must have web-utility