Activity monitor always shows apps that i dont want running

I'm on 10.4.9.
When i open activity monitor, i see that there are programs (or whatever they are) running, that are clearly not important, as most of them are related to various programs or devices that i've installed.
I find myself quitting them when i want to play games or use processor intensive programs (they do take up a little %CPU)... but after a certain amount of time they seem to come back, especially when i restart my computer.
Is there any way to keep them from loading?
Here are a couple examples:
MicrosoftMouseHelper (obvioiusly related to my optical mouse)
HP IO Classic Proxy (related to my printer, which i keep unplugged except for printing)
Print Daemon (see above)
HP Event Handler (see above)
iTunes Helper (iTunes related, and i don't need any help ;))
note that when i turn any of these off, i don't lose any functionality in anything they're linked to (my mouse works the same, as does iTunes and my printer)
thanks.
Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hi Max,
Check your startup items, as long as any of those items are in that list they will keep coming back.
System preferences > accounts > startup items.
I think you will find iTuneshelper and microsoftmouse helper there, take them off that list and they won't bug you again unless started by you or an app that needs them.

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