Tweak Dashboard widget use to improve performance

If you notice your Mac is running very slowly, or if you begin to see a marked slowdown in your Internet browsing performance, it is possible a Dashboard widget could be the problem.


My Mac had been running slowly for weeks. Things seemed to pick up a bit if I restarted the computer, but that was virtually the only thing that seemed to make a difference; I could have just one application running, like Safari or Firefox, and it would slowly begin to slow down. I ran a third-party virus scan, and it turned nothing.

One of the first things I would notice when my Mac began running slow is that each and every time the Dashboard would take forever to load. I searched, and learned that you could clear the Dashboard cache and that that may increase the Dashboard's performance. I did that and that seemed to do the trick -- it was like I all of a sudden had a brand new computer that loaded quickly and ran just like it did when I first bought it. Everything ran smoothly, inc ...

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