Finder not working after sleep

Whenever my macbook pro 13" late 2011 wakes from sleep, finder no longer works, and I cannot shut down.
I have to force shut down by holding in the power button, and then boot up again.
I'm not a power user, and don't know how to fix the problem.
If anyone has any tips, please let me know.
Thank you.

Hi, did you solved this problem ? Same happen to me, I installed Yosemite, then when I try to restart or shut down the Finder crash, I have to force, but nothing happens, I finish on the power button. Thank you. Plz help me.

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Actually mine works fine after applying all the updates available on T400 w/ Windows 7 Pro 64bit. I can sleep/shutdown as much as I want and the GPS works.
By the way, you have to goto your bios to reset your settings to default by pressing F9. Maybe you should try this and see if that solves your problem.
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If I were to stay in a windows environment indefiniately, there is no problem. The problem is once I enter Linux, the problem in windows will occur again (maybe the powerstate settings by the linux kernal messes up the settings on the card).

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anamorphis wrote:
Hi everyone.
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Thank you friend, I do not work and a stylus. Since he is also on usb!
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Windows 8.1 wifi not working after sleep (and other various bugs)

Hello Apple support forum, this is my first post!
Alright, so I just switched to my first mac. MBP Retina late '13. I bought it primarily to run windows, and to also of course use OS10.
My issues in bootcamp however are getting annoying. My Wifi shows up as connected after I resume from sleep, but my mac won't let me disable wifi, enable airplane mode and then re-enable wifi, nothing. The only way to get wifi to work when resuming from sleep is to reboot.
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Thanks guys, sorry for the information overload. BTW, MBP Retina 15" 16GB RAM 512 SSD, 2.6 haswell, pretty much the max specs other than the SSD.

I have stated every issue I’ve had so far in a fairly clear and concise way. I think if you read what I wrote, it all makes logical sense as to what is going on. Windows 7/8 would work just as well on a Mac if it was supported the same way the OS is for other OEMs.
As I stated earlier in the post, I’m having these same issues in windows 8, not just 8.1, which is the reason for the post. I know the difference between supported by drivers and not supported by the manufacturer. The fact that when Haswell mbp’s came out and no revision to bootcamp for the new hardware was released to fix issues with installing windows on the new hardware shows Apple clearly Is not supporting bootcamp as strongly as they advertise.
I am being realistic on Apple having drivers early. Anyone with an MSDN subscription can download the RELEASE version of windows months ahead of the actual release, I’m 100% sure if any average consumer can do that by paying $100 and saying they are a developer, apple can do it just as easily.
You aren’t much help, you haven’t answered really anything to my post, nor have you contributed any knowledge that wasn’t clearly posted above, so don’t say anything if you don’t have anything to contribute.
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Hello all,
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When I press the Power Button on my laptop to put it to sleep, the Screen turns black as if it is off, but the Power & Battery LEDs on the front of the laptop remain on, as well as the LED on the power button. However, when I try to wake my laptop, there is no response on the screen (remaining black as if it is off). The internal fan is running, however I receive no feedback when "blindly" trying to input my password.
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I am facing similar problem - post sleep & sometimes on touchpad event - the screen gets stuck & a strange array of gray screen comes or the existing screen's colors get distorted & the laptop gets stuck.
model - Lenovo U410; 64 Bit; Windows 7 Home basic;, Intel core i5 processor
I have upgraded display drivers but that hasn't changed anything. Any help is appreciated.
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Off to reboot so I can see the screen...any help would be appreciated.

I have been having the issue of no brighness control when running windows through bootcamp for about 6 months now and have not found any applicable solution online.
While messing around trying to figure it out yet again I noticed that my monitor driver was signed by team viewer...
Sure enough clicking the roll driver back button resolved the issue by rolling the driver back to the Microsoft driver...
So long story short:
Right click "My Computer" click properties
Click device manager (lop left of window)
Expand Monitors section
Double Click monitor
Click driver tab
If the driver here is not signed by Microsot or Apple click the roll back button. My driver version is 6.1.7600.16385 (Driver date 6/21/2006)
Rolling this back instantly resolved my issue. I will now propagate this post to all the threads I saw regarding this issue.
I am running windows 7 x64 Ulti on a 15" rMBP.
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Sound does not work after sleep

I'm really tired of this problem. Have a MBP Retina running the most current OS 10.8.4. Every few days or so when I wake the system (after having lid closed for a while, and Chrome browser running) sound does not come back on. So, if I am using youtube I can't hear anything. Only solution I've found is to restart the computer, which of course I don't want to do with browser tabs open, etc. etc.
Isn't there a simple solution to this, before Apple finally figures out what causes this glitch?

Finder
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