Changing user icons for single users?

Hello all! Ok quick question...I have an admin and 2 standard users set up and I want to change the dock icons on the 2 standard user accounts. How do I do this? I know how to change icons and have changed them before, but when I change the icons in one user account they change in the other account as well. I just want two accounts with two different sets of icons. Any help would be appreciated!!

Sincerelyme2003 wrote:
Sorry if that was confusing...I mean like the actual application icons. Like changing the finder or mail or dashboard icons.
those are actually quite different. changing Mail icon in the dock is easy. changing Finder icon in the dock is not so easy unless you use 3rd party software like Candybar. what exactly did you do?
But in any case all those icons are set once per computer which means that they will be the same on all accounts. there is no way around that. the only thing I can suggest if you want them different is to use aliases. make aliases to the applications you use Like Mail and put them somewhere in your home directory. apply any icons you want to the aliases. then put the aliases in the dock instead of actual applications. repeat with the other account using different icons.
This will work for most icons but it won't work for Finder and Trash. as I said those icons are set differently and there is really no way to have different ones for different accounts.
Like I said I know how to change them, but it seems to change them system wide. I changed the finder icon on my first account, then if I go into my second account and change the finder icon it also changes it in my first account. How do I get it to change it just for the account I am currently in? So I can have 2 standard accounts with completely different icon sets? Thanks again!

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