Applications automatically launching constantly

I have a couple machines where apps such as Photo Booth and Mail are constantly launching themselves. On one machine I do use VoiceOver and Speech Recognition - on the other I have played around with those features but have them turned off. I suspect they may be related to the issue since on the machine where they are off the system sometimes does still announce the time and start the knock knock jokes - but when I check the settings everything is off. Fortunately both machines are dual core with plenty of RAM so the impact on the users is minimal - but it is annoying on the one machine when I login to help the customer and see 8 different apps running that I know he is not using. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Is it possible they are in the System Preferences/Accounts/Log-in Items?
It seems improbable the applications would be started with Speech Recognition. The user would need to have the Listening Key pressed or say very clearly “Computer Photo Booth” and have the computer recognize it.
The time can still be announced with Speech Recognition and VoiceOver turned off by setting that option in Date & Time, Clock Tab. I don’t know about the knock-knock jokes.
Perhaps if you removed .plist files related to VoiceOver and/or Speech Recognition it might help.

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