I've done a little research and they say to go through your Activity log to look for any extraneous activity or suspicious items but the list is long and ambiguous (at least to me). If I post my activity log can someone help me identify which items can go and which items might seem suspect?
Thanks in advance!
You can Sort on CPU% or what ever, but...
Have you run Disk Utility's Disk First Aid on all connected drives?
In Disk Utility>View, select Show all Devices, highlight the top left entry.
Run Disk First Aid on all items in the left panel, from top down.
Are you running any VPN, Anti-Virus, or Cleaning apps?
We need to see what all is running, a report from this will not display any personal info...
Using EtreCheck - Apple Community
EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info.
Thanks for Old Toad’s etrecheck instructions…
Slow iMac 2017 - Apple Community
Use the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck. In a Reply before you click post, look for this to add longer texts...
iMac seems sluggish and possibly compromised.
