Replace the 'About This Mac' OS X logo

Nov 12, '02 09:05:21AM

Contributed by: nosaj56

Did you ever wonder why Apple decided to keep their old 10.1 aqua X logo in the "About This Mac" box in Jaguar? They already defaced their X logo on every box of Jaguar, so you might as well do it here, too! There's a tutorial (and a Jaguar X logo) here (credit to Andy Orr), and here are a couple of Terminal commands to speed things up (assuming you downloaded the new logo to your desktop):

 % sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/
loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/AboutBox.tiff
/Users/your_user_name/Pictures
% sudo mv /Users/your_user_name/Desktop/AboutBox.tiff
/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/
Contents/Resources/AboutBox.tiff
[Some extra line breaks were added to narrow the width of the display; enter each command as one line with no spaces except put a space in the first command before "/Users" and in the second command before "/System".]

You will need to restart to see the changes.

[Editor's note: You should be comfortable with the Terminal before trying the shortcut mentioned above; Andy's tutorial is 100% Finder-based, so it's much simpler if you're new to this sort of stuff.]

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