How do you change the "About This Mac" box?

tigerwoods99tigerwoods99
Posted:
in macOS 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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  • Reply 1 of 6
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    That big blue X is located here:



    /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/AboutBox.tiff
  • Reply 2 of 6
    piwozniakpiwozniak Posts: 815member
    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
  • Reply 3 of 6
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Did you totally miss what I just posted, piwozniak? :confused:



    Replace that file. Reboot (might change on a logout instead). Done.
  • Reply 4 of 6
    tigerwoods99tigerwoods99 Posts: 2,633member
    Uh...only problem is when I try to open it...nothing happens...just like closes or something...
  • Reply 5 of 6
    piwozniakpiwozniak Posts: 815member
    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...
  • Reply 6 of 6
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    Calm down, people.
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