Change Finder Icon?

I own a iMac Intel Based and I am wondering.............can you change the Finder logo? It's getting annoying.
Thanks,
Christoph

Christoph * wrote:
Is it difficult to change or just dangerous to your computer?
It's unix -- anything is possible, and often, not even difficult.
I suspect you'd only have to replace the standard Finder.app icon file
with one of your own -- or modify the original. Of course, you'd first
have to figger out how to create or modify a ".icns" file. ...Google it.
/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/FinderIcon.icns
For starters, copy the file to your desktop and open it with Preview.
If you install the Xcode development tools (from your OS install disk),
there's also a "/Developer/Application/Utilities/IconComposer.app"
Sounds kinda promising -- but I've already said far more than I know
about OS-X icon files...
...happy hacking,
Looby

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