Getting rid of memory hogs

I opened up my activity monitor on my new mac, and was surprised to see about ten proceses I had never heard of going on and eating up gigs of virtual memory, and some RAM. They had names like applespell.servce, atsserver, login window, system uiserver, user event agent, launchd, and pboard. Spotlight is also taking up memory despite disabling it. I am not sure if I stopped the indexing as well, but I'll post again for that issue.
Can I turn any of these off or are they essential? Are they not really a big draw?

I'd probably leave them alone. On a new computer, Spotlight has to index the HD at first...it takes a while and takes a lot of CPU/RAM.
The only memory problem I've experienced is with Firefox. It would take up WAY to much RAM. When I upgraded to Leopard, I just stayed with Safari and got rid of FF>

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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867
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2. Backup your computer.
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867
Go step by step and test.
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2. Backup your computer.
3. Empty Trash.
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4. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots
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    iTunes
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    iPhoto
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