How To: Change Icons - The easy way!

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Paul

My How To: Change Icons guide is perhaps one of my most popular posts I’ve ever made. It shows you how to change icons manually. However, lots of people complained about how it was time consuming to change all of your icons, and people were getting pissy about how the only application which does it for you automatically is CandyBar, which you must buy.

While CandyBar is an excellent application, I have bumped into the freeware, almost equivalent version of CandyBar! Allow me to present to you LiteIcon! Almost has all the features CandyBar does. However, one fairly big thing which it lacks is the ability to change application icons (but you can go ahead and do that manually ;) ). Other than that, I think this should solve all of the problems of you lazy people :P

Get LiteIcon here.
Check out CandyBar
Check out the How To: Change Icons guide

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19 Responses to “How To: Change Icons - The easy way!”

  1. How To: Change Icons « Pimp My Mac, on September 21st, 2007 at 3:20 pm Said:

    [...] How To: Change Icons - The easy way! [...]

  2. CLaudia Gutiérrez, on October 2nd, 2007 at 9:30 pm Said:

    Hello, I’ve read your article and I found out how to change the
    icons, but now I need to know how to change the “Finder”
    icon and the “Trash full” and “Trash empty” icons, what do I
    need to do to change them and they change automatically
    when I make the “empty trash” command…

    Please help me. I appreciate you take the time to read my
    comment. Thank you.

    CLaudia Gutiérrez.

  3. Paul, on October 3rd, 2007 at 3:04 pm Said:

    Get liteicon or CandyBar (linked in post) and it’s somwhere there. For Liteicon, I think you’ll find the icons to replace by clicking on the dock tab.

  4. chris, on October 21st, 2007 at 5:43 pm Said:

    hi
    first time that i see your side, and i like it, but well, i will show you some other stuff, that i love an my mac too

    http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/next/

    i use it for a long time, and every day i see some new, and now they are really on the top

    regards from vienna/austria

  5. Resi, on January 9th, 2008 at 12:12 am Said:

    Hello Paul,

    i changed the Icon of my trash but i’d like to change the name too.
    Do you know have another “easy way”?
    Thank you so much.
    T

  6. Paul, on January 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am Said:

    I don’t even know if there’s a hard way to do it! Normally, when you want to rename a file, you just click on the name and type what you want, but the Trash is a deep system file, there is no actual ‘file’ to click on.

  7. raghu, on January 14th, 2008 at 3:13 pm Said:

    Hi I got CANDYBar and changed icons like safari, textedit.

    However, the files that open w/ safari/textedit are still using the original icons.

    I also tried to use GetInfo, changed the program that open to Firefox for all(icons changed) then changed back to Safari, yet rather than using the new Candybar Icon, it still has the default.

    Any suggestions or ideas of where I can change or edit the original?

  8. Paul, on January 14th, 2008 at 7:34 pm Said:

    Hmmm, the files that open with Safari won’t change because you didn’t change those files, you only changed Safari as an application. As for changing them, I’m not sure how, unless you do each one manually - I can check as soon as I’m done studying for my Physics test :D

  9. raghu, on January 20th, 2008 at 2:14 pm Said:

    Good luck on your test.

    What is odd is, using getinfo, open with, and change all, if I set it to open w/ textedit, it changes the icons to what I have textedit set at rather than the original/default.
    However, if I go back to safari, it changes it back to the old safari!

    I am using the samurai collection of icons btw.

  10. Paul, on January 20th, 2008 at 2:37 pm Said:

    Hey there, thanks, I got a 91% :D

    I’m not sure what you mean, what is the ‘it’ you’re talking about? The Safari icon? You’re changing it but it goes back to the default icon?

  11. Simon, on July 16th, 2008 at 11:25 am Said:

    Hello, I have read your article and it´s very good of you to find an free one, but one question: It says it´s for leopard and tiger only! What should I do? I have 10,5,4! Is it possible to use it anyway? HELP, I want that software!

  12. Paul, on July 16th, 2008 at 11:49 am Said:

    Then you’re good to go! 10.5.4 is a leopard OS!

  13. Simon, on July 16th, 2008 at 2:02 pm Said:

    Another question: Do I risk anything by using Litelcon? It says: ¨LiteIcon is distributed “as-is” and without warranty. I’m not in any way responsible for software or hardware damage that may result from its use¨.

  14. Paul, on July 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm Said:

    There’s always a risk, in no matter what you do. You never know when some weird stuff might just freak out on you. I think liteicon is pretty safe though, but they have to put a message up like that because when some weird thing does happen, they can’t afford to be held responsible.

    I’d say it’s safe, but you can always change icons manually if you prefer.

  15. Simon, on July 16th, 2008 at 2:18 pm Said:

    I use this program to change the trash can, regular folder and so on. Thanks for the help! And: Do you use it?

  16. Paul, on July 16th, 2008 at 2:44 pm Said:

    Yes, you can use it for changing the generic folder and trashcan, along with other system icons. I have used it before, but I bought CandyBar 3, so I’m using that instead :)

  17. Simon, on July 16th, 2008 at 3:17 pm Said:

    Is there a free really good dock-changing-program? I would really like to know!
    I´m about to change everything ! :P

  18. Paul, on July 16th, 2008 at 3:32 pm Said:

    http://www.dockulicious.com/download

    :)

  19. Simon, on July 16th, 2008 at 3:48 pm Said:

    Thanks a lot! Works perfectly :D

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