Also you may have a lot of stuff set to start up, such as flash and java updaters, MS Office, etc.   I use Spybot Search and Destroy to deal with that-if you put it in advanced mode, It will allow you to edit the startup options, and it has recomendations as to what actually needs to be started up and what can be disabled.  An excellent free tool-my only gripe is that the resident protection (it is primarally an anti-spyware app) can use a what I think is a  lot of memory, but that can be disabled.  It can be gotten here...

http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html

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