slow shutdown

trying cleaning your HDD some and it should be fine.

 

Try quitting all your apps before you shutdown. If it shuts down normally, then the culprit is one of your apps that's hanging. You can try using Activity Monitor to see which one it is, but it's possible the shutdown process will close AM before the app that's hanging.

How would that have anything to do with the shutdown process? And what do you mean by "cleaning"?

 

Try sleeping it instead..

 

Closing windows doesn't necessarily mean quitting apps. If you close all Safari windows, for example, the app is still running. Check your Dock to make sure no icon has the light under it, indicating that the app is still active. Or you can Command + Tab to make sure no apps are running. That still doesn't preclude a process that could be running, but apps are more commonly the problem.

 

i've had a slow shutdown problem on snow leopard a week after i installed it. the way i solved it was by repairing permissions + cleaning cache/temp files through onyx. you can also try using disk utility.

 

Have you restored from a Time Machine backup lately?

 

Run a disk permissions on disk utility, that usually helps.

 

my macbook was shutting down slow too, and i could not figure out what was the problem. but then i remembered that it started to do that after i installed Parallels 5 and deleted it from the apps folder. then i have noticed that on the parallels CD there is an uninstall icon, so i have started it, and since then my shutdown is fast again