Satellite Pro C650 - Which startup programs can I disable?

After about two weeks with a new Satellite Pro C650 that I bought for my wife, a lightweight user, she is about to throw it at me.
Everything runs slowly. Click start: wait. Open the Control Panel: wait. The wait time is in the range of 20 - 30 seconds. Internet is often slower - especially Internet Explorer, which often goes into a Not Responding state. (Google Chrome performs better although it's not great either) Steps taken so far include a defrag of the C: drive, which was 5% defragmented. I ran a troubleshooting scan off of the Control Panel and it informs me that I have loads of programs running on start-up and suggests I disable some. I had read previously that this is a problem with this Toshiba.
The question then is what to disable? I don't know what most of the programs are or what they do. I'll list the programs here and then gladly take suggestions. By the way, BitDefender was listed three times in the start-up list. I disabled two of them for what it's worth.
The only apps I downloaded were BitDefender and Adobe Acrobat. McAfee antivirus has been removed. Other laptops in the house work fine with the same wireless broadband connection. Hoping someone can help out and tell me what I can disable.
The Start-up list:
SAIICpl Application
Synaptics Pointing Device Driver
Message Center
SmartFaceVWatcher
Catalyst Control Center
Nero BackItUp
Default Manager
BitDefender 2011 (listed three times)
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager
All of these Toshiba applications:
- Power Saver
- Zooming Utility
- Flash Cards
- ReelTime
- TEMPRO
- HDD SSD Alert
- Volume Regulators
- Notebook Registration
- Service Station
- Web Camera Application
Thanks.
Malahideroad

Hi
First of all you can find out yourself what the single applications do and what are controlled by these apps use google to get more details.
But Nero BackItUp, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager can be disabled wihotu having any problems with the notebook
TEMPRO is a Toshiba tool which scans the systems and provides info about new Toshiba driver updates
Its your own personal decision if you want to use it or not
Notebook Registration helps you to register the notebooks warranty and Service Station provides some option to optimize the notebooks performance but its nice to have but its not very important

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