Ten distnoted entries in Activity Monitor
2017 iMac 16GB RAM. System is running slow. No add on programs. There are ten distnoted entries listed in Activity Monitor using 475KB each. Is it safe to delete them?
Have you installed and run any "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus or VPN apps on your Mac?
Please download and run Etrecheck. The free version is sufficient.
Copy the report as shown in this animated screenshot
and use the Additional Text button to paste the report in your reply.
Then we can examine the report and see if we can determine the cause of the problem.