Here’s a simple trick to speedup the shutdown process in Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion. There might actually be a bug in the OS, which takes a lot of time to save the application’s state before it shuts down the system completely.
The trick is really simple. All you need to do is, just shutdown and turn the Mac back on, and then again shutdown, but with a difference. Don’t worry, this has to be done only once. And here’s how you could make your shutting down faster on MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and any other Mac.
Speedup shutdown times:
- Shutdown your Mac with Reopen windows when logging back in option Checked:
- Now, Turn your Mac back on
- Again, Shutdown your Mac with Reopen windows when logging back in option Unchecked:
This is a simple trick, and this seems to speedup the shutdown process on most of the Mac machines in the market.