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How do you change the "About This Mac" box?
tigerwoods99
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December 4, 2002 9:39PM
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edited January 2014
Aight I got a custom image I wanna put in the About This Mac box to display instead of the X. How do I do this?
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ghost_user_name
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December 4, 2002 9:42PM
That big blue X is located here:
/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/AboutBox.tiff
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piwozniak
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December 5, 2002 12:14PM
Check <a href="
http://www.osxhints.com"
; target="_blank">OS X hints</a>
Somewhere there is an article on how to change pic and text in about this mac window.
HTH
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ghost_user_name
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December 5, 2002 3:11PM
Did you totally miss what I just posted, piwozniak?
Replace that file. Reboot (might change on a logout instead). Done.
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tigerwoods99
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December 6, 2002 1:16AM
Uh...only problem is when I try to open it...nothing happens...just like closes or something...
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piwozniak
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December 6, 2002 8:33AM
No i did not.
By default you don't have permission to access:
/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/AboutBox.tiff
so either you do it through terminal, os9, or root user.
osxhints gives you command so you just copy/paste command in terminal window. I don't know how confortable TigerWoods99 is with unix so i assumed this would be aesier.
Boy oh boy...
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der kopf
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December 6, 2002 1:37PM
Calm down, people.
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/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/AboutBox.tiff
Somewhere there is an article on how to change pic and text in about this mac window.
HTH
Replace that file. Reboot (might change on a logout instead). Done.
By default you don't have permission to access:
/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/AboutBox.tiff
so either you do it through terminal, os9, or root user.
osxhints gives you command so you just copy/paste command in terminal window. I don't know how confortable TigerWoods99 is with unix so i assumed this would be aesier.
Boy oh boy...