Have Computer Name and Photo in About This Macintosh?

[Johnnya101]

Just finished installing 7.5.5 on my Quadra 700 (Thanks to that pinned guide!!). When I installed 7.0.1, under about this Mac it said Quadra 700 and had a picture of one. I didn't like 7.0.1 and initialized the drive blah blah blah, but now in 7.5.5 it just says macintosh with that drawing of one with the blue and yellow and red... this happened when I reinstalled in on the original hard drive a while ago too. I'm using a legacy disc.

Is there a way to edit the system files to make it show Quadra 700 and the photo?

 

[Scott Baret]

There is a utility of some kind to display at least the name but the title escapes me. Apple did away with this when clones came about (although part of me thinks they did it after coming out with a dozen or so variants of the same model, i.e. the Quadra 630).

 

[jsarchibald]

Would ResEdit be what you are looking for?

 

[Macdrone]

no look on mac garden there is a utility extention that fixes it to show correctly like in 7.

 

[jsarchibald]

Must be like the one I used back in the day that allowed you to change the Welcome to Macintosh message when booting.

 

[Macdrone]

mac identifier 1.1.1 is what its called.

 

[BadGoldEagle]

Get it here: http://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=20501&keywords=mac%20identifier

Works like a charm.

 

[Johnnya101]

Yup, that's what I'm looking for! I'll try it later!

 

[Johnnya101]

Works GREAT! Even has instructions! (It's just putting the thing in the extensions folder...)

 

[BadGoldEagle]

On System 7 and up, dragging any extension/control panel or any system file actually to the system folder will place it where it needs to go. Most of the time, you don't even need to read anything