Disabling Dashboard

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Don't like them? Planning on using something else? Here we look at Disabling Dashboard.

Contents 1 Solutions 1.1 Manually 1.2 Re-enabling Dashboard 2 External Links

Solutions

Manually

Fire up terminal and enter

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

Then restart the dock with the following command

killall Dock 

Re-enabling Dashboard

Fire up terminal and enter

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

External Links

• MacOSXHints Article - All of the information above came from the MacOSXHints article.