DisableTigerFeatures1.0.3a

like LACWBO said, if you don't like it don't use it. Ridiculous. Doesn't actually save disk space; that would be total removal of these components. A waste of time. Apple doesn't include nice features to be wasted.

This has to be one of the most stupid programs I've seen! 1. Widgets don't take up any space on your screen unless you choose. A little black circle on your dock is all that exists, unless you desire otherwise. 2. Spotlight can be very useful and, if you don't want to use it don't. What's a little blue circle on you menu bar hurt? Tampering with system software is what gets most of us in to trouble, especially when updating to the latest Apple versions of their software or security upgrades.

WTF? account suspended ... anyone have a working link for this?

So what is Tiger for if not interesting in Spotlight and Dashboard. Why not stick with Panther and download Quicktime 7 for Panther. Is the other minor features that make you switch to Tiger and you simply hate the main features of Spotlight and Dashboard? Appreciate if anybody could share why.

You know if you disable it, you gonna loss some prossessor performance. Try those 2 configurations with X Bench application and you will see that I tell you.

Very useful utility. Hopefully Dashboard and the rest will disappear with 10.5 together with the dock and other nuisances in order to give way to a real task bar (the dock is just a pale copy of it) to match the new intel processors. Give way to the future!

Well it's great someone wrote this, I actually hate Spotlight and Dashboard so much I'm considering going back to Panther. I cannot abide seeing all my private emails and files indexed. Yet particuarly annoying with spotlight is when you disable it you can no longer search your mailboxes from with the new butt ugly mail app. Dashboard is just a complete yukky mess that looks like it was put together by amateurs. It is just horrible. I can't wait to get rid of it. (Can it be deleted altogether ?) In fact I think I've decided I hate Tiger so much I think it's gonna be Windoze or Linux for me in the future. I can hardly believe Apple have released this dog's dinner of an OS. It is horrible.

Ok. I want to use this program but chmod and the like are Gleek to me. Can I download this program and use it to turn off Dashboard (which I find useless) and Spotlight (which I don't use) without getting burned? My machine has really slowed down with 10.4. Hopefully in 10.4.something there'll be away to exit these features.

The developer is definitely on the right track here.. however, a -warning- for those disabling Spotlight with 1.01. The author added the feature that deletes the /etc/hostconfig file.. if you use this, you -might- have this file deleted from your system without a new one placed in! when you reboot, you may not have any way to mount your hard drive!! This happened to me, and I had to create my /etc/hostconfig from scratch. I've emailed the author about this. I recommend you backup your hostconfig file before using 1.01, and be prepared to copy it back in single user mode (this will restore boot function if this happens to you.). Before everyone overreacts, bear in mind that some of the other utils (like Applejack) had growing pains too. I hope InvaderBlue can debug this..

File not found. This is beginning to sound bogus. Most of us already know how to disable Spotlight. But Dashboard is a child process of the Dock. Let's see the term command you use to disable Dashboard.

I've found the cause of the problem and the solution. To clarify, the program does not disable the menu in the corner, it just disables spotlight searching (and searching in all applications that use Spotlight). The bug resides is that the program does not delete it's hostconfig file (inside the application) and that the code right after the file editing doesn't work. And Softpedia is really fake. They gave my (non-working) product 5 out of 5 stars and a Softpedia award. Wow.

Well, regardless of the political views -- here's my review. IT DOESN'T WORK! When you release a piece of software (or basically a script in this case) -- make sure it works!!!

This has got to be one of the most stupid programs I've ever seen. Is this a joke / protest by people who don't like upgrades or is this foreal?

Why! This sounds like all the "My Apple menu is gone!" or "I hate the Dock" whinging when X first came out. If you don't like Spotlight, don't use it. Same for Dashboard. It's easy enough to disable all the hot keys anyway. Dashboard and Spotlight *add* functionality. They take nothing away. Another one for the luddites, I guess. Bring back OS9.