Changing System Icons

In reference to:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/margin.html
It states that the only requirements are either 10.4 or 10.5. I was under the impression that you need a 3rd party app to change the system icons. Is there a way to do it without an extra app?

It IS possible to change those icons by hand but it's not exactly pleasant.
Personally I would recommend a 3rd party app like [Candybar|http://www.panic.com/candybar>.
Most system icons live in /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle.
Right click on it and choose "show package contens". navigate to Contents/Resources
That's the folder for most system icons. You can replace them by yours if you really want to do it by hand. I would back up the entire Contents/Resources folder before doing that.

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I use Leo's Icon Archive a lot and I found a nice set to update my OSX with, but I don't know how.
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that worked fine
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Changing Finder Icon

How does one change the dock's Finder icon in Tiger? I replaced the "Finder.icns" in the Finder file, but do I have to do something about the "Finder.png" in the Dock folder, too? It was a lot easier in Panther...

Here's a two part article on changing system icons in Tiger.
http://www.resexcellence.com/mods_05/07-21-2005.shtml

System icon for power is not turned on and wont let us change it

The system icon for power is off, but the power icon will not change to on. Can you please assist

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Possible to change folder icon using app.system()? [PC/mac]

I need help to verify if this works smoothly.
... If it is even possible...
#target bridge;
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Source system icons changes when connecting SAP BW to mySAP ERP 2004

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import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Vector;
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import javax.swing.JTree;
import javax.swing.event.TreeExpansionEvent;
import javax.swing.event.TreeExpansionListener;
import javax.swing.event.TreeSelectionEvent;
import javax.swing.event.TreeSelectionListener;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.tree.TreeModel;
import javax.swing.tree.TreeNode;
import javax.swing.tree.TreePath;
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 createNodes(top);
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 tree = new JTree(top);
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 tree.addTreeExpansionListener(hObjectExpan);
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import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import javax.swing.Icon;
import javax.swing.JTree;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeCellRenderer;
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 Icon NotSelectedIcon;
 Color BackgroundColor;
 boolean Selected=false;
 boolean Leaf=false;
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 DefaultMutableTreeNode SelctedNode=null;
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 Selected=sel;
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when i select a node the the method "getTreeCellRendererComponent"
start to run on the entire tree from buttom to top and than from top to buttom.
for me it waste of time because if has say 100 nodes it wont botthers me.
but i have 20000 nodes and more its take a time.
and for all this nodes i have to make compares.
is there a way to force the DefaultTreeCellRenderer to not run the entire tree???
Thanks

You need to make sure that your TreeModel interprets your group nodes to be non-leaf nodes (one of the methods in the TreeModel interface is called isLeaf). If you are using a DefaultTreeModel with DefaultMutableTreeNode objects, you can use the askAllowsChildren property of DefaultTreeModel and the allowsChildren property of DefaultMutableTreeNode to control this. See the API for more details:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/tree/DefaultTreeModel.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/tree/DefaultMutableTreeNode.html

How do I change these icons?

Finder and Dashboard... I understand the procedure to change the icon for most apps (open the "get info" window of the icon I want, copy the icon and then paste it to the "get info" window of the app I want to change)
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Im trying out different forum topics to see if anyone can help and I thought this would be a cool thing to do and might be doable with an applescript.
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İ have apple icons and I would like to change windows 7 icons.
How can I do?
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I recently bought a new MacBook Pro Retina display and have been installing applications and copying over old files to start with a fresh system. I think I may have tweaked the default system icons because they look a little wierd:
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On a second attempt I decided I would try to do a clean install of Lion and figure out how to get my infomation back later. After the restart and holding command-r again my mac went into internet recovery mode. It downloaded some 4GB of data from Apple, but I'm not sure what that did. I think it downloaded OS X Lion. It then re-installed the OS. I was surprised when it came back to the login screen - it seemed that nothing had changed. Upon logging in I found that my information was still there, but the icon issue was fixed. I don't know if it installed Lion without disturbing my stuff, or if it did a clean install and then restored my info from the time machine backup. It didn't take more than an hour, hour and a half.
In any case, all is well now. I still don't know what messed up my icons, but at least it can be fixed without too much trouble. I'm glad I'm on a mac. This would have caused headaches on Windows since it lacks native backup and restore features.
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