[X4U] Widgets? - Unrelated

[Daly Jessup]

Ed,

>I think I installed one on purpose but since it was never heard from 
>again I do not use it. I occasionally find them in the foreground 
>and can never figure out what key combination I hit to get them to 
>come to the foreground. They are essentially worthless (too me).
>
>I stumbled on one a month ago and it was supposedly there to make 
>sure all you non apple products were current (release levels). I 
>started to go through them and gave up since the version I have are 
>not all that out of date.

The black round icon on your Dock, just to the right of the Finder 
icon is for Dashboard. "Dashboard" is where you see widgets. So click 
that black icon to see whatever widgets you have. The F-12 key will 
also bring up the Dashboard. Or if you have a mouse button set for 
Dashboard, you can bring it up by pressing whatever button you have 
set for  Dashboard. Or you can just double click "Dashboard" in your 
Applications folder.  Oh, and in the Screensaver part of the Desktop 
and Screensaver System Pref pane, under the "Hot Corners" button, you 
can set one of the corners of your screen to bring up Dashboard.

In other words, there is no shortage of ways to access Dashboard 
widgets, and there are lots of them built right into the O.S. Sounds 
like you installed one you didn't need or want. So, remove it, and 
activate some that are more useful to you!

Daly
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