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Give Pro Tools 11 A 64 Bit Icon On A Mac

It’s slighlty odd that the new 64 bit Pro Tools 11 still sports the old App Icon, even moreso when you run both 10 and 11 as a co-install and you find the icons in your dock are both the same. But you can make them look like the image below.

First download this Pro Tools 11 64bit GIF first.

Once you’ve downloaded it then open it in Preview on a Mac, CMD “A” to select the entire image and copy it to the clipboard.

Go to your Applications folder and CMD “I” on the Pro Tools 11 Application to get the info dialogue box to pop up.

Select the Pro Tools icon in the top left of the dialogue box so it shows a blue highlight around it, then CMD “V” to paste the new icon, you should see it change.

Pro Tools 11 now has the App icon it should have. Enjoy!

Instructions for Windows

Download it and save it somewhere safe like inside your Windows folder “C:\Windows”

Then go to your PT11 icon on your desktop and right mouse click it and choose “Properties” from the bottom of the list.

Click the “shortcut” Tab 

then click the “Change icon” tab and “browse” to the place where you saved the icon image in “C:\Windows”

Click on the “PT64icon” file and click open, Click “OK” and “Apply” and you are done. 

Dont move or delete that icon file in your windows folder or it will stop working.