Frozen Dashboard

[PG&ManlyHub]

My dashboard is completely frozen and I cannot exit it. I cannot click on any of the widgets and I cannot click out of the dashboard. The desktop has a few applications open which seem to be working ok - if I attempt to force quite the applications using the keyboard commands they are closing, but the dashboard remains up and the curser is useless.
I have tried restarting the computer but it opens on the same screen with no changes.
Any suggestions what to do? I only really have use of the keyboard.

Thanks!

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

I'm unsure which version of Mac OS X you are running, in Mavericks I think the Dashboard has been re-written but I am still running Mac OS X Lion.

Anyhow, you can give this a go:

• Launch Activity Monitor (Applications~>Utilities)
• Select All Processes
• Select DashboardClient Process in red and then Quit Process with the red stop button.
• Restart your Mac.

(If you have difficulty finding the process just copy/past DashboardClient into the text field in the top right)