<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear list,<div>My thanks to all who responded. I would like to especially thank Randy Singer who taught me:</div><div>a: I was resetting my PMU all wrong</div><div>b. I needed to look at programs that are always running, even if I had not updated them in months....</div><div><br></div><div>The problem turned out to be one of those all running programs. (It was little snitch!)</div><div>Seems that even though I had not updated it in a month +, somehow, it was causing the machine to hang.</div><div>Force quitting it using activity monitor BEFORE restarting / shutting down prevented the hang.</div><div>But, before I could send a possible bug report to them, they came out with a version that says resolves this issue, even though the symptoms they reported I had not seen.</div><div>10+ restarts / shutdowns after installing the update and I have yet to experience the hang.</div><div><br></div><div>Ok, and resetting (properly) the PMU restored the "zippiness" I use to see when I ran Excel, but not recently.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you Randy.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not believe I can ever repay you knowledge wise, but if and when we meet, I would like to buy you a drink of your choosing....</div><div><br></div><div>Lee</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">LAL <<a href="mailto:lazilicata@gmail.com">lazilicata@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">April 13, 2011 20:40:24<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>GMT+03:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:x4u@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">x4u@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>Sorry, long worded email but I am at a road bloack as to what trouble shooting I should do next...</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">....With just Finder running, I hit the power button, or select from the menu, the option to restart / shutdown, and the process starts, the display changes to my background only, then my computer hangs. ...</div></div><div><br></div></div><br></div></body></html>