My 24" IMac is slow and getting slower and over heats

24" IMac 2.8Ghz, 4G of Ram 320G Intel HD O/S Mavericks 10.9.5
Computer is slow and getting slower.
Seems to overheat and freeze when processing video
Sepearte issue blue tooth not working Computer says now hardware

EtreCheck version: 1.9.15 (52)
Report generated 7 October 2014 3:14:24 pm AEDT
Hardware Information: ?
iMac Intel Core 2 Duo (aluminum enclosure) (Early 2008)
iMac - model: iMac8,1
1 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information: ?
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro - VRAM: 256 MB
iMac 1920 x 1200
System Software: ?
OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) - Uptime: 0 days 1:3:9
Disk Information: ?
WDC WD3200AAJS-40VWA1 disk0 : (320.07 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 319.21 GB (179.11 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information: ?
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse
Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Gatekeeper: ?
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ?
[not loaded] com.elgato.driver.DontMatchAfaTech (1.1) Support
[not loaded] com.elgato.driver.DontMatchCinergy450 (1.1) Support
[not loaded] com.elgato.driver.DontMatchCinergyXS (1.1) Support
[not loaded] com.elgato.driver.DontMatchEmpia (1.1) Support
[not loaded] com.elgato.driver.DontMatchVoyager (1.1) Support
[not loaded] com.microsoft.driver.MicrosoftMouse (7.0.0) Support
[not loaded] com.microsoft.driver.MicrosoftMouseBluetooth (7.0.0) Support
[not loaded] com.microsoft.driver.MicrosoftMouseUSB (7.0.0) Support
[not loaded] com.wdc.driver.1394HP (1.0.9) Support
[not loaded] com.wdc.driver.USBHP (1.0.11) Support
Startup Items: ?
EyeConnect: Path: /Library/StartupItems/EyeConnect
Launch Daemons: ?
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[running] com.wdc.SmartwareDriveService.plist Support
[running] com.wdc.WDSmartWareService.plist Support
User Launch Agents: ?
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[loaded] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
User Login Items: ?
iTunesHelper
AdobeResourceSynchronizer
Skype
EyeTV Helper
MicrosoftMouseHelper
Dropbox
WDQuickView
Internet Plug-ins: ?
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 5.1 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.2.0.16   - SDK 10.8 Support
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.3 Support
OVSHelper: Version: 1.1 Support
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.12 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Support
DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 2.1 Support
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Support
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.8
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.12 Support
EPPEX Plugin: Version: 10.0 Support
Safari Extensions: ?
DivXHTML5
Audio Plug-ins: ?
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins: ?
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes: ?
DivX Support
Flash Player Support
Flip4Mac WMV Support
Microsoft Mouse Support
Time Machine: ?
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: YES
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ?
      2% WindowServer
      0% fontd
      0% MicrosoftMouseHelper
      0% Dropbox
      0% aosnotifyd
Top Processes by Memory: ?
221 MB Safari
147 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
139 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
135 MB com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64
131 MB Solitaire
Virtual Memory Information: ?
604 MB Free RAM
1.93 GB Active RAM
1010 MB Inactive RAM
504 MB Wired RAM
451 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs

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// set AvgLenght if it is undefined
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12 play sets 0 4 4 0 3 4 1 2 19 9 10 30
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Error: Error #1023: Stack overflow occurred.
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