Existing users, 
DashOff
disable & enable DashBoard on Tiger
Version: 1.01
just delete all widgets
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: truckstopboy Wednesday, May 25 2005 @ 03:09 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
the extra ram dashboard takes without any widgets running actually goes in the dock. to stop this just go to /library/widgets/ and delete them all then your dock won't take barely any ram. heres the funny thing though, when i tried this app, disabling dashboard made my dock take twice as much ram as it does when i have dashboard on. otherwise it just seemed to block access to dashboard. just drag it out of the dock, turn the key command off and delete every widget and then dashboard is really gone.
Overall Rating:
just delete all widgets (NOT) - Shooshie
Deleting widgets takes time, plus it destroys the way you have organized them on the screen. If you have to do that every time you want to turn them on or off, you'd never use Dashboard. This just makes no sense.As for the RAM issue, the real story is that when Dashboard is activated, the Dock takes up many times more RAM than when it is not activated. Here are my numbers from Activity Monitor:
1) With Dashboard turned off by way of DashOff, my Dock occupied 2.7 MB RAM.
2) With Dashboard turned on but not activated (that is, I have not brought it up on screen yet) the Dock takes up 2.7 MB.
3) Once it has been brought up on screen (and I have 10 widgets running), my Dock uses 8.08 MB whether Dashboard is on screen or off.
4) I quit Dashboard using DashOff after copying the above info, and my Dock is back down to 2.7 MB.
Your mileage may vary, but the RAM argument against DashOff does not hold water. Sorry about that. DashOff is a useful utility, and there is nothing suspicious going on under the Dashboard. I fully recommend it.
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Tuesday, July 26 2005 @ 09:32 AM PDT