[ero2]

so, I didn't realize this, but all those little cool widgets eat a good amount of my memory. I like dashboard but when I am using photoshop and what not, I need all the avilable ram I can get. Do I just need to get rid of all the widgets I downloaded? Like for example, yahoo traffic, 24mb, package tracker 24mb,etc. Any thoughts on this or I am worrying about nothing, I can't seem to find a way to quit this program, so it looks like it is always enabled, no?

[CharlesS]

This has been answered many times already.

If you don't want to use Dashboard, just don't activate it. It is not running until you first use it.

If it's already running, then just don't use it for a while. If the widgets are written properly, they'll go to sleep when the Dashboard isn't visible, and if they're not doing anything for a while, they'll get paged out to the hard disk and won't be using any RAM anymore.

[Chuckit]

You can't kill it because it's part of the Dock. But you can just close all the widgets and then they won't take up RAM.

[ero2]

Originally Posted by Chuckit

You can't kill it because it's part of the Dock. But you can just close all the widgets and then they won't take up RAM.

that's what i was looking for, now I can have my cake and eat it too. Thanks.

[eevyl]

You don't have to close them all, as CharlesS said. But seems that is not the answer you were looking for, which makes me wonder that if you did know the answer you were looking for why ask in the first place?