Turn off your dashboard in OSX

Turn off your dashboard in OSX

November 11, 2010

I've been trying to speed up my macbookpro because it seems to have slowed down lately. I talked to Matt Gauger and he suggested turning off my dashboard if I wasn't using it.

How to disable your dashboard in OSX

Open terminal and paste this command in.

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

Attempt to launch dashboard. If it doesn't, you win!

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