Whenever I try to turn off my Mac, this Finder menu appears on top:
It doesn't go away even when I try to Force Quit this application using Command+Option+Escape.
Can anyone suggest what's wrong with it?
Whenever I try to turn off my Mac, this Finder menu appears on top:
It doesn't go away even when I try to Force Quit this application using Command+Option+Escape.
Can anyone suggest what's wrong with it?
First of all: Nothing is wrong with your Mac.
The Finder is the default application used on the Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems that is responsible for the overall user-management of files, disks, network volumes and the launching of other applications.
As a result you cannot remove it entirely. Think of it as being similar to the Start Bar or Explorer on Windows. You wouldn't want to close explorer.exe on Windows, as it would leave the GUI of your machine unusable.
Here's a guide to adding a 'Quit'-button to the Finder menu.
It's basically:
defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool yes
However, I can't imagine that not being able to quit Finder makes your Mac un-shotdownable; are you sure you don't have anything else running in the background?
Assuming normal operation, You always see Finder because it is the "last guy still standing" after all of the other apps have been killed off to get ready for shutdown. You don't need to kill it; the system will do that.
Edit: If you actually need to kill Finder, try Shift-Clicking the Apple menu. Since Finder is then the front-most application, the menu will offer to Force-quit Finder. I'm not sure killing the Finder will fix whatever is blocking your shutdown process, but it's worth a try.