HD icon?

[mauly]

How do I change the "Macintosh HD" icon on the desktop? I've been looking at this months desktop threads and have noticed some people have cool icon's!!!

 

[ColoJohnBoy]

Copy whatever icon or picture you want as the Macintosh HD icon to the clipboard. Then select the HD icon and hit Command-I. In the window that pops up, click on the icon picture - a faint blue outline should appear. Then hit Command-V to paste and you have a brand new icon 🙂

 

[Jaffa Cake]

It's very, very simple – you just need to...

1. Select the icon you want to change your folder, app or file to.
2. Choose "Get Info" from the File Menu, or click command-I.
3. Click the icon in the upper left of the info window.
4. Choose "Copy" from the Edit menu (or type command-C).
5. Select your folder, app or file on the desktop and "Get Info" for it.
6. Click the icon in the upper left of the info window.
7. Select "Paste" (command-V) from the Edit Menu.

And that should do the trick for you.

I'm not having a go or anything, but a quick search would throw up tons of threads asking the same question, and giving the same answer... 😉

 

[20rogersc]

Find the one you want, try the Icon Factory or InterfaceLIFT.

Then ctrl click on your HD icon > Get Info, and click on the icon in that info window. Copy and paste whatever icon you wish.

Sorted.

::20ROGERSC::

EDIT: Got beaten to it.

 

[mauly]

cheers!!
🙂

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

And, if you want to make nice, transparent icons from image files try good ol' IcoMaker.

 

[Lazyhound]

How do you revert to the old one?

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

How do you revert to the old one?

Just mark it (click on it) in the Info window and press backspace (or delete).

 

[buryyourbrideau]

ha i forgot and sound dumb for asking but how do you get the info to come back up under the HD and under an ipod for instance?

 

[Sic]

cant remember exactly without looking, but i think it's in finder preferences.

 

[Jaffa Cake]

Under your Finder Menubar, click on View/Show View Options and click 'Show item info'.

 

[Will Cheyney]

And if you ever want to do back to the original icon - select the icon in the 'Get Info' pane and hit Apple and x (cut).

 

[cleanup]

And, if you want to make nice, transparent icons from image files try good ol' IcoMaker.

Iconverter is better. It can convert anything to anything. 🙂