Enabling and Disabling Dashboard

Sometimes Dashboard may crash or will not launch for one reason or another. Or maybe you just want to disable it to conserve RAM. Here is how it is done:

Launch Terminal, which is located in the Utilities folder of your Applications. To enable Dashboard, enter the following command:

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

Then, restart the dock by entering this command:

killall Dock

To disable it, enter this:

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

Then repeat the “killall Dock” command.

[Via Mac OS X Things]

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