10.4: Replace the system's Computer icon and more

May 15, '05 01:54:00AM

Contributed by: canisbonvsest

Tiger only hintFor some reason, Tiger still insists on representing your computer with an icon showing an iMac. It's not even a new iMac, and besides, I don't have an iMac. The file you need to replace is called iMac.icns, and, along with a lot of other system icons (like those for Desktop, Trash, Finder, Get Info, etc.), it's now migrated to this directory:

System -> Library -> CoreServices -> CoreTypes.bundle -> Contents -> Resources

Now you can replace any of these with .icns files of your choosing, so long as they have the same name as the original file. Go crazy...

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