Definitely a good place to look is Services. There are several good websites (no links come to mind, Google works) that detail common services, what they do, and whether or not you can change them from Automatic to Manual or Disabled. Do this with extreme caution as some services are required. QT task can be disabled from the Registry. Real#?$!er never ever gets installed on my machine. Pro constantly ran background services which would interrupt whatever I was doing to show me that it had special news to advertise. And they increased their monthly service fee but were extremely reluctant to cancel my account. I moved the charges to a credit card that soon became defunct. :) A free and non-invasive alternative is Real Alternative.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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