> 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. ;) I've been able to play songs by switching off all my widgets, that wouldn't playback with the widgets open. I'm only talking about 3 or 4 factory widgets. And I'd never used or opened the Dashboard before. So you do get a performance gain by switching off all widgets. This is on a powerbook G4 running 10.4.6. David Nahmani Apple Certified Trainer Level II Logic Pro Help (http://LogicProHelp.com) President, Los Angeles Logic Pro User Group