Help Me With My Mac

If you don’t use your Dashboard, you can free up available memory in your computer (sometimes resulting in a speedier system!), by disabling your Dashboard.

If you want your Dashboard disabled, here’s how to do it:

1. Click on Spotlight in the Upper Right.
2. Type “Terminal”, you should see the Application “Terminal” become the Top Hit.
3. If Terminal is highlighted, press Return.  If not, select it by using your arrows, and press Return.
4. You should see the Terminal application start, and be dumped at a textual screen prompt.
5. At that prompt, type “defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES” and press Return.
6. When the prompt reappears, type “killall Dock” to make the change happen.
7. Once it’s done, you can either type “exit” and press Return, or use the keyboard shortcut to Quit (Command + Q) Terminal.

If you ever want to re-enable your Dashboard, simply enter the command in line 5 above replacing YES with NO.  Also, type line 6 to make the change happen immediately.

Enjoy!