Apps like have long offered a quick solution to managing your Mac’s application icons, but it’s just as simple to change most icons yourself. Here’s an overview on how to use custom icons in OS X. Standard Apps OS X includes a number of “special” applications (e.g., Calendar, Finder, Trash) that need some specific attention when it comes to changing their icons, and we’ll discuss those more below. For most apps, though, the process is fairly straightforward. First, identify the app you want to modify and find a suitable replacement icon. In our example, we’ll change the icon for iTunes in our OS X Mavericks installation to the teased by Apple during WWDC. You can use practically any JPEG or PNG image file as an icon, but you’ll see the best results with uniformly sized PNGs with transparency.

The same way you change icons on other files. Select the image you want, copy it to the clipboard. Get Info (Command-I) on the shortcut, click the icon picture in the top left of the Info window, and Paste (Command-V) the new icon on top of the old one. Double-click the USB flash drive icon to open a window and display the contents from the drive. Step Locate the JPG files on the Mac that you want to convert over to a PC.

Great places to find replacement icons that are properly formatted include and the. Download the image you’d like to use as your new icon and open it in Preview. With the image open and Preview the active application, press Command -C to copy the entire image. Next, find the original location of your app (not it’s Dock or Desktop shortcut). For almost all applications, you’ll find the correct file in your Applications folder, located at Macintosh HD/Applications.

In our iTunes example, the iTunes.app file is found in the top level Applications folder. If you want to change the icon of a system utility like Activity Monitor or Terminal, you’ll find these apps in the Utilities subfolder of the Applications folder. Quit the app if it’s running and then highlight it in Finder. Press Command -I to open the Get Info window. Alternatively, you can right-click on the application and select “Get Info.” Here, click on the small application icon preview at the top of the window, to the left of the application name (not the larger icon preview at the bottom of the window). You’ll see the icon preview outlined in blue once you’ve correctly selected it. Now press Command -V to paste the image you copied earlier.

You’ll see both icon previews change to display the new icon, and you can close the Get Info window if you’re satisfied with the new look. If you don’t like the way that the new icon looks, you can press Command-Z to undo the change, or highlight the small preview icon at the top of the window and press Delete to revert to the default icon. Once you’ve made your changes, the new icon will be displayed in Finder or via Desktop shortcuts. To get your new icon to show up on the Dock, either quit and relaunch the app or head to Terminal and enter the following, case-sensitive command: killall Dock Repeat this process for each app icon you wish to modify and you’ll soon have a slick custom Dock.

Now, what about those special apps we mentioned earlier? We’ll show you how to change the icons for Finder, Calendar, and Trash on the next page.

If you’ve ever wished you could change the icon Windows uses for a drive in File Explorer, then you’re in luck. We have two ways to show you how to do just that. Changing your drive icons is just one of the many ways you can. You can even if you can’t find other icons you like. We’ve got two ways you can change drive icons in Windows. The first way uses a free third-party app to let you change the icon for an individual drive.

The second way involves a couple of quick edits to the Windows Registry. Option One: Change an Individual Drive Icon with Drive Icon Changer The easiest way to change the icon for an individual drive is with a free tool named. It was originally written for Windows Vista but it also works in Windows 7, 8, and 10 to let you quickly change the icon for any drive. After you download and extract the program, you’ll need to run it with administrative privileges. Right-click the EXE file and choose “Run as administrator.” The first time you run the tool, it may ask you to install some files, so go ahead and let it do that. It’s also a, so there’s no installation necessary.

After running it, you’ll see that Drive Icon Changer has only one screen where you select the drive for which you want to change the icon and then browse for the ICO file you want to use. There are no additional settings available.