ELI5: Why do computers get so enragingly slow after just a few years?

• Hot

  40 2,033 0.0 Swift

  Hot is macOS menu bar application that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues.

iMacs are sensitive and unusable if the room/environment temperature goes up 1-2 degrees. Once an iMac reaches temperatures that exceed its cooling capabilities, it will reduce the Scheduler Limit. This OS protection slows your computer down to a % of its actual performance. It's designed to reduce load down to a level that the computer can cope with, given its temperature situation. A tool called Hot will reveal the current scheduler limit, and you'll be able to verify this is the problem.

• smcFanControl

  11 2,366 0.0 Objective-C

  Control the fans of every Intel Mac to make it run cooler

Use a tool like smFanControl, Macs Fan Control, or Stats to manually set your fan speed to 100%. This is noisy and reduces the lifetime of the part, but it means you can force your device to cool down, even when the OS doesn't want to.

• InfluxDB

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• stats

  192 22,032 9.4 Swift

  macOS system monitor in your menu bar

Use a tool like smFanControl, Macs Fan Control, or Stats to manually set your fan speed to 100%. This is noisy and reduces the lifetime of the part, but it means you can force your device to cool down, even when the OS doesn't want to.

• HomeBrew

  1,281 39,373 10.0 Ruby

  🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  

How long ago was this? If it's Office 2010 we're talking about, you can't, and shouldn't use that anymore. If 2016 or newer, then you can simply use the same original key to activate Office for Mac. You can download Office using Homebrew with brew install microsoft-office and then enter your key.

• Atlas

  118 11,718 9.9 Batchfile

  🚀 An open and lightweight modification to Windows, designed to optimize performance, privacy and security.

  

And the website https://atlasos.net/

• WorkOS

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