[DocWest]

Here's how I did it (version 3.0 of the mac client)

Open up SETI@Home Control Panel in ResEdit. MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!

Open one of the icon resources (icl4,icl8 etc. doesn't matter which one)

These are the icons you change:
-16493 (red flashing menu bar icon)
-16492 (green flashing menu bar icon)
129 (Icon shown at bottom of screen on Startup)

For the first two (the menu bar icons), erase all the pictures in the eight boxes.
This will leave a blank space in the menu bar where the little SETI icon is.
If you click where the icon SHOULD be, the little menu will still come up like normal. If you want, you can also change the names of the items in the menu to hide SETI even more from prying eyes . Do this by editing the MENU resource.

Changing icon resource #129:
To hide the SETI icon at startup (on the bottom of the screen). I changed this icon to something totally inconspicuous: the InputSprocket Extension icon. Looks perfectly normal.
To do this, open the InputSprocket extension (or whatever icon you want to change it to) in resedit. Open up one of the icon resources and copy and paste all of them into the corresponding little box of icon resource 129 of the SETI control panel.

Save all changes and quit resedit.
To see the changes (or not see in this case), restart with the modified SETI control panel in the control panels folder.
MAKE SURE YOU KEEP A BACKUP. Just in case

[This message has been edited by DocWest (edited 10-08-2000).]

[DocWest]

Instead of the little flashing red/green seti icon in the menu bar, there will just be nothing.
To give you some notification, just put a little dot in one of the little menubar icons (icon resource number -16493 or -16492). Or you could put your own icons or graphics in. do whatever pleases you. or whatever you think will please the owner of the computer

If you've never used resedit before, don't worry, it's not that hard. Just keep a backup

Hope these instructions are easy enough to follow.

[wlonh]

thanks for posting Doc

i opened a copy of the seti control panel with resedit a couple of days ago, and noted the green seti icon in the resources you mentioned... i was too confused to go further, the fact that they were 'sprinkled around' put me off... and i was basically lazy/chicken to experiment

did you see that tobacco pipe icon? wonder what's up with that... hmm

[DocWest]

Yeah, dunno about the pipe icon.

Heh, I did all this 'cuz my mum kept telling me to get it off her computer. I hope she thinks it's gone now.

Of course she could just use Sherlock to find any bits of SETI. I hope she doesn't think of that.