> How do you disable widgets? By switching them off in the dashboard. There is also a hack around somewhere to switch off the dashboard in total, but the effect of this should be negligeable next to audio processing. By the way, the widgets won't even load until you switch to the dashboard in the first place. Then when you switch back from the dashboard, the widgets will sleep and use no CPU; just some memory that will be swapped out eventually (and not swapped back in until you re-open the dashboard so again, no real performance loss there). Don't expect to be able to open a single Silververb more with tweaks like these. ;) Maurits.