HELP! Stuck new user

[Ralff]

Just unboxed my new iMac, have a class on Monday, should have left it alone! I am stuck in some loop, trying tom trash a bunch of empty folders I somehow created! Tried a restart but "The Finder can't quit because some operations are still in progress".....the folders are preparing to move to trash? Help?

 

[barry]

try this unplug i mac and all lines going into it leave it for 2 min plug JUST the mac in try

 

[Kaveman]

ouch, never do this, this is the very final resort.

And its hold down the power button and count to 10.

 

[Kaveman]

the OP would have moved on but:

Use Activity Monitor to locate the process and Kill it, then log out and back in or a normal restart.

No modern OS likes the power just being pulled.