I'd like more stability and keep Catalina, if possible. of 2022? Or is another approach to create a new user on the Mac, copy data to new profile and try that first? Can I clean install Catalina now, in Feb. We called it "win-rot" and the fix was a clean install about once every 3 years. I 'm a former Windows guy, and doing clean installs fixed many things. Word, Excel since 3 years ago, and Safari only recently. I use the force quit often for Word, Excel and Safari because they become unresponsive. It's a production machine I use for teaching online and I need to to function. Is it possible to do a clean install of Mac OS Catalina, even though I can't download it from Apple anymore? I see it might be possible, when I look at forums, but I'm not convinced it will work. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Office, well I think I have, but no change. No other apps have this hang-freeze behavior. Firefox is never a problem but I run it with tight security and rarely use it. In general overall responsiveness is very good, but Word, Excel and Safari hang often. Clearing Safari cache/history/cookies does not help. Now, Safari hangs when I download PDF's (since Apple has not put out any more OS Catalina Safari updates, I notice). Word and Excel have been crashing soon after I installed them (Office 2019) about 3 years ago, even though I apply the updates. IT's running latest version of OS Catalina as of Feb. I have a 2017 iMac, Retina 5K, 16 GB RAM, 50% occupied HD, 4 GB Video RAM, quad-core i5. First of all please do not suggest I upgrade to Monterey unless there is absolutely no other possible solution.
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