Feb 12
By coincidence I figured that there is an easy way of deleting Widgets from your Dashboard.
Just go ahead and press the Alt/Option key and scroll over any widget. As you can see the white cross on the left hand side appears and you can delete a widget from your dashboard.
* note from James – This is an oldie but a goodie, I don’t recall if we’ve covered this already or not. I’m sure new mac users will appreciate.
February 12th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Yep, it’s been posted:
http://www.leopardtricks.com/leopard/easily-close-widgets
February 12th, 2008 at 7:49 am
To me (and possibly others), the term “delete” implies completely removing it from the system. In that sense, this will not not delete a widget. It will merely close it.
February 12th, 2008 at 8:05 am
I’m a new mac user, and new to this page – and one of the top things i was trying to figure out how to do. Thanks for repost!
February 12th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Yeah… This is NO delete. Just removes it from you current DISPLAYED Dashboard Widgets.
Would be nice if there was a Quick Delete…
February 12th, 2008 at 9:31 am
BTW.. If you want this removal to go in Super-Slow-Mo. Hold Shift | Option, and click the X.
February 13th, 2008 at 2:02 am
This is great, I had some google widgets that were stuck there even after removing the google app and this worked great to remove them
March 14th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
THANK YOU!!!! New mac guy here and figured out how to get a widget onto the desktop and not in the dashboard, but then couldn’t get rid of them if I didn’t like! Thanks so much for the tid-bit, loved it.
November 27th, 2008 at 6:35 am
thanks! i know it’s simple but i didnt know how to do it in the 1st palce. so helpful
December 1st, 2009 at 12:41 pm
AMAZING!!!!! THANK-YOU!!!!
December 20th, 2010 at 9:35 am
I had a webclip on the dashboard. Then I “soft” removed it from the display using option button, but not shift+option button. S it was not permanently deleted. I am sure it is floating somewhere in the system. Where can I find it and permanently delete it? It is not in the widget folder.
Tks.
March 16th, 2011 at 8:12 pm
If you want to actually delete the widgets from your mac, they are stored here:
Macintosh HD / Library / Widgets
Just navigate to that folder in finder and right-click on widget(s) you don’t want and do ‘move to trash’; you might have to type in your password.
Had to do this to get rid of the widget that was installed for my USB battery charger, which was causing kernel panic.
September 22nd, 2011 at 4:42 am
i’m not sure if the op will see this, but why wouldn’t i instead “Just press the Alt/Option key and scroll over any widget?”
i really don’t need to “go ahead” and press anything… i just need to press … i’m pretty sure that’d get the job done.