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Quickly remove a widget

Previously we looked the Dashboard and how we can use it.  With this big number of widgets available, the Dashboard can get quite busy. Time to get rid of those you don’t need (or want).

To quickly remove a widget from your Dashboard, hold down the option key and move your mouse over the widget in question.

This will display the x-symbol to remove a widget in the upper left corner.

x-symbol widget

Click it and the widget is gone.

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    • This entry was posted on Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 8:04 am and is filed under quick tip. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

    One Response to “Quickly remove a widget”

    1. Lydia Says:
      November 20th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

      I had a problem with this,
      however once I deleted the page,
      the background to that webpage continues to play in my dashboard,
      how do i make this stop?

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