![]() (When you simply exit Dashboard, its widgets don’t actually quit-they keep running invisibly in the background, taking up RAM and CPU power.) You can see how processes run within each other in Activity Monitor if you click the Show pop-up menu at the top of the window and choose All Processes, Hierarchically. That’s why the way to make all Dashboard widgets quit is to quit the Dock. For example, in addition to running the Application Switcher, the Dock also runs all of the Dashboard widgets. Not everyone is aware that the Dock hosts many processes in Mac OS X. The Dock and Application Switcher should both work now. ![]() The Dock is one of those processes that restarts itself if it’s quit, so that’s all you should have to do. In the confirmation dialog box that appears, click Quit. ![]() Open the Activity Monitor (it’s in the Utilities folder), select Dock in the list, and click the Quit Process button (or choose View > Quit Process). If this happens to you, the way to fix all of these problems is to restart the Dock. ![]() The keyboard shortcut to display the Dock wasn’t working either. Another thing that wasn’t working was moving the mouse to the edge of the display to make the hidden Dock appear. Today I tried to press the Command-Tab shortcut for the Application Switcher but nothing happened. ![]()
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