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One of the more resource intensive processes on a Mac is the Dashboard. While occasionally convenient and quite eye catching, it is a memory hog! Disable it on your Macs by running the following commands after selecting your machines and choosing ‘Unix’ from the toolbar. You can put all of this in one command box, and it is suggested that you use the root user.

//Disable Dashboard
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall Dock
//re-enable Dashboard
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO

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If you need to close an app on a system, you can use the ‘killall’ command.

Select the machines you wish to work with, then choose ‘Unix’ from the menubar, then chose which systems to perform the action on. In the command field, enter ‘killall APPNAME’, for instance, ‘killall TextEdit’ will close that app on the selected machines.

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