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How to disable Dashboard (aka ‘the RAM hog’)

Started by scottmcdaniel · 10 months ago

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  • Kyle Welsh

    2 years ago

    The Dock is nice but until I get more RAM, I'm going to keep it disabled. Great tip, thanks!
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  • webman2k

    2 years ago

    I remember when Tiger came out, and the widgets would take up about 20-30 megs of real memory each. If you had 512 or less memory, this tip was great to improve performance.

    But recent updates to Tiger have seen new memory optimized widgets. I have a couple of widgets open (calculator, weather, dictionary, sticky, etc.) and all take up around 6-8 megs of real memory each). If you have a widget that's taking up 260 megs of real memory, it's time to get a new widget.
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  • Thomas Edwards

    2 years ago

    Alternatively, you could just remove it from the clock so you don't click on it. Then go into System Preferences and stop it from appearing when you press F12. Restart and it won't appear.

    Just a slightly less geeky of doing it :)
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