Finder not responding on reboot or shut down

I'm currently writing this up as this is happening. Running OS X Yosemite on a 15" MacBook Pro Early 2011.
I have Windows installed with bootcamp so I need to restart my computer regularly. Every time I restart it or shut down, Finder hangs and stops responding and my computer won't restart or shut down at all. Once or twice I've been able to force restart Finder and the computer restarts, but now even if I do that it won't work. Every time I just end up giving up and hard resetting.
This happened on Mavericks before I installed 10.10.

Hi my friend, Im having the same issue, did you fixed it ? Plz help me, thank you.

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