How to change the System Preferences icon
Maybe you prefer the old
icon?
You many want to change
your icons, especially ones in your dock, but one is
rather stubborn; the System
Preferences icon. Even though
it’s a standard application, you can’t just
change the icon as you would any other. I’d
normally just use the great free app.
LiteIcon to change icons likes
these, but for some reason it doesn’t appear
as one of the choices. It does appear in
Candybar, but Candybar costs.
Thankfully, I’ve worked out how you can do it
quite easily, without messing about in Terminal (there
may be some simpler way I’ve missed of course):
In the Applications
Folder,
select System
Preferences
From the File
menu, select
Get info, or the keyboard shortcut, Command+i
You may need to click the Padlock
icon at the
bottom right to unlock it by entering your admin.
password.
At the bottom of the window you will see
Sharing
& Permissions
Click the + (plus button)
Pick your user name in the list that appears and
click Select.
Your name will then appear along with the others in the
list
Next to your name, on the right under
Privilege,
change Read Only
to
Read &
Write
Highlight your name again and select the
Cog
button at the
bottom (to the right of + & -)
From the pop up menu, choose: Make "Your name (Me)"
the owner.
Where “Your
name” is your
user name.
You will then be able to change the System Preference
Icon in the normal way.
If you don’t know how to do that, see this
link.
After you’ve changed it, you can highlight the
system name in the list, select the Cog
button once
again, and set it as the owner. You can then highlight
your own name in the list and press the - (minus)
button to remove yourself.
There, your icon has changed - if not, just drag it out
of the dock, and drag it back in again.