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Deactivate your Dashboard

Hate the Dashboard? Prefer Yahoo! Widgets (excellent app by the way, now with a 'Dashboard mode' - press F8 and only your widgets appear onscreen).

So, deactivate it so it won't consume any CPU cycles or memory (it does consume them, even when youdon't open it).

Open Terminal or iTerm and type:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

and then:

killall Dock (this reinitilizes your Dock)

To enable the Dashboard back:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO

killall Dock

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