DisableTigerFeatures

Spotlight's index can take lots of space. I personally hate spotlight, Windows search is probably less annoying. As far as finding a program stupid because YOU do find any use for it - no comment.

Try this: http://download.excite.it/lista.php?id=146&p=3 (in italian but easy to guess where to click)

Neither link has this software.

Dashboard widgets have been shown to have memory leaks (see http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=258044). I have had kernel panics and crashes that seem to go away when I disable dashboard. Other features of Tiger that I like: the new Mail.app's smart folders, savable searches, automator, RSS in Safari. Being able to disable some features is a good thing. It helps with debugging and system tuning and performance.

By "upgrading" OS X with some minor changes to the GUI, Apple forces developers and thus users to go to the next 10.x (aka built-in obsolesence: borrowed from Ford/GM long ago) Dashboard appears to be another attempt at Sherlock -- ad placement, like cigarettes in movies. Marketers and advertising agencies are slimy no matter who they work for. The 2nd law of business states -- maximize and smooth cash flows. This is called "building share holder value" = pumping share price. Enron forever! The only thing I can do is skip a release: going from 10.4x to 10.6x. When are the Apple folks going to run out of names of big cats? I think that Chimera would be a good one for 10.5

The main reason I hate Spotlight: It wants to search all of my drives for the FIRST CHARACTER of the search term that I am attempting to enter. After a few minutes, it finally searches for the whole word I was attempting to enter. Very frustrating. Very bad design to not have a way to modify this behavior in a Preference.

The only-and I'm 100% serious here-reason I use Tiger instead of Panther now is because Tiger has built-in support for my DVD+/-RW. I don't need or want the Dashboard (or Konfabulator for that matter), and while Spotlight is nifty, it's hardly a reason to upgrade from the most solid and stable OS Apple has released since 2001. But extended hardware support...well, that's a horse of a differen colour.

You wanted to know why we would upgrade to Tiger if we didn't want Dashboard and Spotlight. Why wouldn't we just stay with Panther? Personally, I wouldn't have, and I didn't buy Tiger when it was first released. But I upgraded my computer from an older eMac to a new G5 iMac, which came with Tiger. Then it seemed silly to try and install Panther on a machine designed to run Tiger. I'm not even sure if it would be possible. So some of us didn't have a choice--it came with our computer--besides all of the othe valid reasons given. I'm anxious to see if this program works. I was given this link by someone on an Apple message board when I posted the question of how to disable Dashboard.

I use command-F constantly as part of my daily workflow. Although I bought and own Panther, I find Spotlight so loathsome, so very very much slower andharder to use than the old Finder search in Tiger, that I have retained Tiger on my main machine. I've heard all the guff about how completely revolutionary the technology of Spotlight is. It's as if Steve Jobs had taken away my beautifully engineered 21-speed mountain bike and given me a very expensive SUV to replace it. Great for longdistance travel across the Mojave desert, but useless for getting quickly to the local shops and back thru heavy traffic. Since Tiger already does everything I need, including searches, my powerbook sticks with it. My new G5 Powermac HAS to use Panther, which is why this app interests me.