We all hate it when our computer's take forever to shut down, but your temptation to smack the power button to shut it down quickly is a very bad thing to do.and#160; Computers by design, use lots of temporary files during normal daily operations and they are marked for removal when you put it into shutdown mode. There's actually an extensive process of housekeeping that is setup to run whenever you shut down, which you can witness by watching the flashing of your computer's hard drive light.and#160; When you force a shutdown and don't let it finish, it will fill your hard drive with files you don't need.and#160; Any time a computer starts getting low on free disk space, it will greatly impact performance.and#160; So anyone that is guilty of this mistake should take the time to track down those unneeded space hogging files and toss them using the Windows Disk Cleanup utility.and#160; Patience is a virtue and a huge benefit when it comes to your computer shutting down and all those Mac users hearing this should also operate with the same guidelines to keep things running smoothly.