About Dashboard and the Widgets.

Hi everyone, I am looking for a clear explanation about memory usage and the dashboard items: the checkbox, the - sign.
The Gidget Manager says that "uncheck widgets to disable them", so I do that, but the widgets always came back.
I was wondering, how much resources of the computer the dashboard consumes?, I like widgets, but I have only 512 MB of RAM, and whant to squeeze as much power as I can. And don't put things that consumes resources, and stay there, doing nothing.
If anyone could give me a tip, I will appretiate.
Thanks from argentina,
Pablo

This question is easy enough to answer simply by looking at the process list in the Activity Viewer. You can find the Activity Viewer in the Utilities folder.

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