Change the title of the About This Mac box

Nov 21, '02 09:46:19AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

After having changed the picture in the About this Mac box, you may also want to change the title above the picture. I personally changed them to "About this iBook" and "About this iMac." You'll need to have the Developer Tools installed, and the process goes like this:

  1. Go to System -> Library -> CoreServices -> loginwindow.app -> Contents -> Resources -> your_language.lproj, where your_language is English, German, etc.
  2. Copy ProcessPanel.nib from this folder to the Desktop
  3. Open it in Interface Builder
  4. In Process Builder, select 'About this Mac' under 'Instances'
  5. Select Tools -> Info in the menu
  6. You get a mask where you can change the window title
  7. Close and save your changes
  8. Start from another volume and replace the original file with the changed one. Don't forget to backup the original file!
  9. Once you get back to the original system, you may want to set the privileges correctly (read & write: system, write: wheel and others). I don't know if this really matters but it's more elegant to do so.
Enjoy!

[Editor's note: I have not tested this one myself...]

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