HP Pavilion Touchsmart 23 processor constantly running in the background

I have an HP TouchSmart 23 All-in-One PC.  Received it 12-25-13.  For the last few months it has steadily slowed down.  It sounds likes programs running in the background all of the time.  I went into the Task Manager and disabled nearly all of the startup programs.  Uninstalled Adobe Acrobat 7 (to get rid of acrotray that was listed in the task manager).  Nothing has helped.  I have Windows 8.  (I will not install Windows 8.1 as it interferes with the monitor brightness setting.)  My antivirus program is Norton Internet Security.
So...I have a PC that I got as a Christmas present.  It is less than a year old, and is already becoming a dinosaur.  Can someone help me?

I had the same problem.I ended up needing updates on my windows software. if you dont allow them you need to change your settings to allow them. then resat your computer and all your updates will load and your computer should speed up mine did. i was amased at the difference. good luck

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