When I very first got my Mac I loaded up the OS X Dashboard with countless widgets, doing all sorts like checking share price levels to little puzzle games. However, I soon started to realise that some of my dock items where hogging precious memory, and stealing CPU cycles.. Not to mention the fact the only time I saw the widgets was when I accidentally ended up in the dashboard view.
Because of this I have been looking at ways to disable the Dashboard all together, sure, it’s a cool place to hand out, and a nice party trick.. However I’d much rather have the free memory and CPU cycles!
So, if you’d like to disable OS X Dashboard, launch a new Terminal session fro the utilities folder and copy/paste in the following commands:
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defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES |
As the Dashboard Process is controlled by the Dock, you will also need to relaunch the dock, to do this simply copy and paste the following code into the terminal window:
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Killall Dock |
As with all of the terminal tutorials I post they are easy to reverse, to re-enable the OS X Dashboard:
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defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO |
Then you will once again need to relaunch the dock:
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Killall Dock |
It really is as simple as that..