Spinning wheel during shutdown?

Hi there,
For the first time ever, my Mac has done the gray shutdown spin-wheel routine, and I'm not sure why. It went from shut-down in 5 seconds, to shut-down in 30 seconds. Is there anyway to improve shutdown / startup speed.
In addition, I'm not sure if this is appropriate for this section of the forum, but I have Win XP installed on a partition of the hard drive - what is the best way to defragment it?
Thank you!
Jonathan

f15pilotaf wrote:
For the first time ever, my Mac has done the gray shutdown spin-wheel routine, and I'm not sure why. It went from shut-down in 5 seconds, to shut-down in 30 seconds. Is there anyway to improve shutdown / startup speed.
Try a SMC reset first. I also think the following should be done.
Try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk.
You could have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them. Disk Utility's Disk Repair is not perfect and may not find or repair all directory issues. A stronger utility may be required to finish the job.
After that Repair Permissions.
In addition, I'm not sure if this is appropriate for this section of the forum, but I have Win XP installed on a partition of the hard drive - what is the best way to defragment it?
For this, try a New Post in the BootCamp forum.
DALE

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