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Bye Bye Dashboard 2.0

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Easily and painlessly remove the Dashboard. Free

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Developer
Kermit Soft

Bye Bye Dashboard allows you to remove the Dashboard. Tests show that the Dashboard uses a siginificant amount of CPU power even when not in use. It has also shown to use a large amount of internet bandwith. Also in a corporate environment the Dashboard could be come a distraction to employees. Thus Bye Bye Dashboard was made.

The Dashboard is in no way an essential part of OS X, it is simply another application built into OS X. Disabling the Dashboard is in no way a permanent operation. Bye Bye Dashboard also works the other way. It can easily enable the Dashboard in seconds. This

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Danp commented on 24 Sep 2009

Is this still available? Download and more information links are broken.

[Version 2.0]

fragmore commented on 21 May 2007

Putting it back is as easy as deleting it, Aristotle.

[Version 2.0]

fragmore commented on 01 Aug 2006

I just moved the Dashboard app to the trash and deleted it.

[Version 2.0]

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macnerd1984 replied on 21 May 2007

Congratulations on that one, Einstein. If at some point in the future you might decide it's useful then have fun re-installing.

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MadMacMad reviewed on 01 Aug 2006

oh Man...
thnk you very much for this....
i use it on my Pismo Powerbook & it gives me more Memory & CPU Power back....
thxx Dude

[Version 2.0]

tonygoulding reviewed on 23 Mar 2006

Running on a 2GHz iMac G5 with 10.4.5. No problems whatsoever.

Would like to have it silently DISABLE dashboard upon login, but it's not scriptable :-(

But it does what it says, so great!

[Version 1.0]

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Michael Williams (developer) replied on 01 Aug 2006

If you would like I can make a version that when opened it will disable the dashbaord and then exit. That way you can then just chuck in in StartUp item's folder. If you want get really technical then you can use a program (I can't remember what's it's called) that will hide the application icon from the dock so no one notices.

Revelation22.12 reviewed on 23 Mar 2006

Downloaded it. Ran it. Eliminated it (Dashboard, that is).

Works like it was described. Running it reset the dock, then prevented Dashboard from activating.

Running B/W G3 (upgraded to G4) with 10.4.4.

[Version 1.0]

iTech commented on 23 Mar 2006

Didn't work for me neither. Not that it dissapeared or anything, it just didn't result in any sort of a change.

I'll post my results with pictures on : http://itech.webwarp.net

[Version 1.0]

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Michael Williams (developer) replied on 23 Jul 2006

Hello.

I have noticed that sometimes the program doesn't work first time. Try restarting your computer and then running it. Just keep running it till the dashboard goes away. It will work after awhile.

I'm not sure what causes this but I think it's something to do with the apple side of things.