Maybe you prefer the old icon?

You many want to change your icons, especially ones in your dock, but one is rather stubborn; the System Preferences icon. Even though it’s a standard application, you can’t just change the icon as you would any other. I’d normally just use the great free app. LiteIcon to change icons likes these, but for some reason it doesn’t appear as one of the choices. It does appear in Candybar, but Candybar costs.

Thankfully, I’ve worked out how you can do it quite easily, without messing about in Terminal (there may be some simpler way I’ve missed of course):

In the Applications Folder, select System Preferences
From the File menu, select Get info, or the keyboard shortcut, Command+i
You may need to click the Padlock icon at the bottom right to unlock it by entering your admin. password.

At the bottom of the window you will see Sharing & Permissions
Click the + (plus button)
Pick your user name in the list that appears and click Select.
Your name will then appear along with the others in the list
Next to your name, on the right under Privilege, change Read Only to Read & Write
Highlight your name again and select the Cog button at the bottom (to the right of + & -)
From the pop up menu, choose: Make "Your name (Me)" the owner.
Where “Your name” is your user name.

You will then be able to change the System Preference Icon in the normal way.

If you don’t know how to do that, see this link.

After you’ve changed it, you can highlight the system name in the list, select the Cog button once again, and set it as the owner. You can then highlight your own name in the list and press the - (minus) button to remove yourself.

There, your icon has changed - if not, just drag it out of the dock, and drag it back in again.

Tags: system preferences icon, icons