Applications (including the Finder) frequently stops responding

I'm on an iMac Mid-2010 with 8 GB of RAM and the latest version of El Capitan.

In the last two days, my iMac began frequently stops responding. The problem does not seem to be specific application; It happens even when I do turn to nothing other than the Finder. I'll be in the middle of a task, and suddenly everything stops. I get the rotation beach ball, and often Activity Monitor shows the current application as "not responding." After a period ranging from a few seconds to a minute, my iMac snaps out of it. Then, a minute or two later, the same thing happens again.

What have I changed recently, you might ask? Mid-June, I installed the new software of the printer and upgraded to Office 2016; However, both worked fine for a few weeks before this new problem is surface. App Store does not show these latest updates to important day and nothing at all in the last five days.

Activity monitor offers all the answers clearly - there is no memory pressure and the idle CPU extends from 70 to 98%.

State SMART of my boot drive is fine, and first aid disk spots utility zero problems.

I also went through the predictable easy fixes - reboot, reset the SMC and NVRAM.

What else should I be looking at, or train? It is better to reinstall my OS? Or maybe it's a hardware problem (gulp)?

If you run a utility, 3rd party utility network or anti-virus remove now and restart

start in safe mode and see if the problem persists.

Try safe mode if your Mac does not end commissioning - Apple Support

If so, you can publish a report of etrecheck for further analysis.

www.etrecheck.com

see the following topics

Using disk utility to check or repair disks - Apple Support

http://www.CNET.com/how-to/how-to-determine-if-your-Macs-hard-drive-is-failing/

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