MacBook Pro slow shutdown

How do I uninstall the (built-in) Wi-Fi adapter from my mac?

Wow SnipeSwipe! How do you get your boot-time to only 7 sec? mine is around 13sec.

Are you using 10.8.2?

Hello Stingray77

Do you think you can post a brief tutorial on how you uninstall and reinstall the wifi thing? THanks a lot!

In retrospect, even I used to get slightly longer boot times. They reduced after installing windows 7(same time that one of the apple updates came out, so not sure what affected it). But yeah, I guess sheer luck?! I can post a video to YouTube maybe of both the fast boot times and slow shut down times.

And secondly, as many people have asked, can someone put a walkthrough please?

It's not really unistalling it. Just go into system pref --> network click on your wifi adapter then hit the minus sign.

Reboot then back to network settings and hit the plus sign. Select wifi for interface and leave it for default for service name. It should automatically join the wifi network you're on.

I tried jeepster40's approach and removed/rebooted/reinstalled the Wi-Fi network setting. It made no difference in shut-down time for me.

Looking in verbose console mode, I see an apparent delay with Parallels (v7) hypervisor shutting down. The console explicitly reports an 8-second delay, which is much less than the minute or so total delay that I am experiencing when I shut down. I previously removed Parallels and doing so had no effect either, but it is possible that Parallels has components that are not removed by using its uninstaller. I may try and do a more comprehensive removal of all of Parallels components and preferences and see if that helps.

it worked once for me then back to normal. my shutdown is about 23 secs. my macbook air with much less specs is 3-4 secs...

There's another thread on this dealing with iCloud integration. See:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4154099?answerId=19507054022#19507054022

I haven't tried disabling iCloud integration.

thanks I will look into it. just can't figure out whats different in my two notebooks.. :-

Hi, I tried all the suggestions to speed up my shutdown. None worked.

Then I stumbled across the solution (at least for me).

Just go to Safari's "Preferences", then "Privacy", then click "Remove All Website Data". Bingo! I went from 20 second shutdown to 1 second.

Just an update. "Remove All Website Data" worked for a couple of shutdowns, but now I'm back to the 20 second shutdown. Has anyone tried Mackeeper?

I've given up for now, too. Maybe some 10.9 "cat" will fix it.

The culprit is iCloud. Make sure none of the iCloud sync options are selected under System Preferences and your shut down times will be instantaneous, like they were when the rMBP was new!