<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SHORT CUT: To quickly remove widgets, hold down the Option key when you hover over a widget. The X will appear on the widget so you can remove it.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Milton</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 27, 2005, at 2:31 AM, Brett Conlon/HU/Music-AU/SONY wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif">I had a play with this the other day and found that if you close the widgets they don't consume memory any more.</FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif">When you invoke Dashboard, press the + in the bottom left corner. Xes should appear on all active widgets. Click each X to close them and you'll see them disappear from Activity Monitor.</FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif"></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>