THINGS TO DO:
A. Repair Permissions:
1. open up Disk Utility.
2. click on your hard drive (Macinhosh HD).
3. On the right hand side click on Repair Permissions.
B. Clear cache:
1. from the Finder's Go menu, choose Go To Folder.
2. Go to this folder: /Library.
3. Delete the Caches folder.
C. Change ownership of root
1. go to Terminal
2. execute this: sudo chown root:admin /
Note:
If there are still no improvements with your boot/shutdown times, I suggest you do a clean install of LION.
C. Change ownership of root
1. go to Terminal
2. execute this: sudo chown root:admin /
Note:
If there are still no improvements with your boot/shutdown times, I suggest you do a clean install of LION.
