SOLVED Jettisoning uneeded programs

[mr.magoo]

What do I need to watch YouTube? How about instructional videos other than YouTube?

I write. I've been getting into mapping. I communicate with others to play games. I store images and manipulate them. I supposedly manage a couple of websites and a forum, but the way it is now, I hang up when trying to access my sites.If I can ever get the hang of it again, I might edit pdfs. Hmmmm, what else?

I don't play computer games. I don't watch TV or movies. I have no interest in producing music, though listening is nice. I don't use IM, but chat is integral to my hobby. I don't do photo editing. The CDs and DVDs I produce would be for data, some of which might be images.

I have an HP p6620f with an AMD Phenom II X4 830 processor.

Oh hell, as long as I'm here...

Screen shot's too big, so, the hard way, my programs list:

Adobe Air
Adobe Flash Player 11 plugin
Adobe Reader X (10.1.1)
ATI Catalyst Install Manager
CC2 Pro
CC3
CC3 Update 10
CCleaner
City Designer 2
CyberLink DVD Suite Deluxe
Dragon Magazine Archive
Dungeon Designer 2
Dungeonographer
DVD Menu Pack for HP MediaSmart Video
Everything 1.2.1.371
FastCAD
HP Advisor
HP MediaSmart CinemaNow 2.0
HP MediaSmart DVD
HP MediaSmart Music
HP MediaSmart Photo
HP MediaSmart SmartMenu
HP MediaSmart Video
HP MediaSmart/TouchSmart Netflix
HP Odometer
HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 A910 Basic Device Software
HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 A910 Help
HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 A910 Product Improvement Study
HP Product Detection
HP Setup
HP Support Assistant
HP Support Information
HP Update
HP Vision Hardware Diagnostics
HULU Desktop
I.R.I.S. OCR
Java 6 Update 27
Java 6 Update 27 (64-bit)
Kapersky Pure
Label Print
Light Scribe System Software
Logitech SetPoint
Malwarebyte's Anti-malware version 1.51.2.1300
Marketsplash Print Software
Marketsplash shortcuts
Microsoft NET Framework 4 Client Profile
Microsoft NET Framework 4 Extended
Microsoft Office File Validation Add-In
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (ENU)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (x64)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.3...
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.3...
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x64 Redistributable - 10.0...
Movie Theme Pack for HP SmartMedia Video
Mozilla Firefox 7.0.1 (x86)
MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB954430)
MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB973668)
Notepad ++
PDF Complete Special Edition
Photo Now!
Picture Mover
PlayReady PC Runtime amd64
Power2Go
PowerDirector
Readris Pro12
RealTek High Definition Audio Driver
Spybot - Search and Destroy
UniBlue DriverScanner
UniBlue PowerSuite
Uniblue RegistryBooster
UniBlue SpeedUpMyPC
Ventrilo Client for Windows x64
Windows Live Essentials
Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant
Windows Live Sync
Windows Live Upload Tool

I must have previously uninstalled Skype, though I may have use for it in the future. A couple of additional notes. My browser of choice is Firefox. My e-mail is Google and they're quite overrun. I do have one Windows Live sign-in, but I don't use it. Thought I'd try IE for a while, but ended up going back to Mozilla. I have occasion to use the OCR technology. I do know a bit of HTML and I'd like to learn more. In fact I'd like to become quite familiar, once again, with computing in general, but I'm afraid I just have too many irons in the fire right now and not enough brain cells.

So, the question is, which of these programs can I ditch and not hurt my limited productivity or my computer's integrity? I'm wanting to go as lean as I can without crippling myself further.

PS: I tried researching this, but the damned machine is so bloated, I can't seem to get answers 'cause the damned sites won't load!

 

[TrainableMan]

Adobe Air DELETE

Unless you are low on hard drive space deleting programs will have very little effect on your system, with the exception of any that load into memory. So quite honestly this list is not that important and is not going to improve your system speed (like I said, with the exception of removing programs which load into memory on start).

Run MSCONFIG go to the Services TAB and check the box that says Hide all Microsoft services then provide us the list of what is still there. Then switch over to the startup TAB and provide us with that list. Any of these that we can remove will help speed up your computer.

Next is to see what items automatically update. Any of those things can slow down your internet connection (browser speed): JAVA, Quicktime, ccleaner, Windows Update, Windows Media Center, Kaspersky, etc can all auto update and if they try to do it while you are browsing then it will slow down your computer. To help minimize this you can turn off the automatic updates (but then you need to be responsible to check manually) or if you can leave your computer on all the time then these things are likely to occur overnight when you are sleeping. And of course if you stream videos from the internet that uses a lot of bandwidth. Streaming live radio or music will also slow you down a little but a much smaller percentage than video.

 

[mr.magoo]

I've become a very impatient man. I've gone through and stripped a bunch o' stuff out, stuff I knew I wouldn't use. I'll try and deal with it a little more patiently tomorrow.

 

[mr.magoo]

Well, I accomplished something. After uninstalling a bunch o' stuff, I can actually access my sites and Microsoft!