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MacBook Pro hangs up a lot, have to do a lot of force quits

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zylander

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Ive got a (I think) late 2009 MBP, its a 15" C2D. The computer has been hanging up a lot when shutting down, Ill sometimes be staring at the light blue shut down screen for up to 1-2 minutes. Im also having to use force quit a lot with Safari and with the Microsoft OSX remote desktop.

The computer has all the latest updates, any reason why the computer will hangup so often when trying to shut down?
 
drop into terminal as root and take a look see.

sudo su -
dmesg

take a look in /var/log

could be a bad drive - something an SSD will take care of nicely 😉

macbooks get really trippy like that with a bad drive - i spent half a day reloading osx having it randomly fail (thought it was a bad dvd-rom/disc) - finally busted out a microcenter G2 special ssd and damn thing loaded in short time and has been rocking out so fast it's not funny.

those 5400 rpm drives they put in their suck butt.
 
I would backup your files, then do a fresh install. But don't do a time machine backup, because that will copy old system files back, just backup your documents, pics, music, etc. After that run software update, get all the updates, then start copying back your documents.
 
Run a permissions and disk repair under the disk utility.

Fixed a number of issues on my MBP recently.
 
Applejack kicks ass
http://applejack.sourceforge.net/
free as well.
use the X menu to run memtest.

OnyX is also good
http://www.titanium.free.fr/
clean your caches, run maintenance scripts, etc.

does your hard drive have plenty of free space? try to keep 15% free, minimum 10%.
so for a 100 GB drive, that's 10 GB-15 GB unused.

consider downloading & reinstalling the latest 'combo' update of your current OS.

last ditch would be clone your drive to an external, verify you can boot from it, then erase your internal drive, reinstall OS X, apply combo update, then use Migration Assistant to move back your apps/data/settings.
 
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