Vampire Apps

Hi,
I have a 5 year old Macbook running Mac OS X version 10.7.5. I recognize that this is at least two versions behind the current Mavericks. I do not plan o upgrade, fo even though the latest version is supported on my MacBook, that great of a disparity between hardware and software, in my humble opinion, does not always result in the best user experience. Overall, I am happy with how it runs nows.
My question is that over the years, the boot up of the laptop now takes longer and longer. I suspect I have accumulated processes that run in the background that are automatically starting up at boot, consuming cyces that elongate the boot up, and in reallity, I do not need them anymore.
1. How can I identify these "Vampire" processes or apps?
2. How can I tel if I need to keep them?
3. How do I get rid of the ones I do not need?
4. Any other tips to improve performance would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Open your Activity Monitor from Utilities and see how much memory is being used. Look through your active processes and see if there is anything eating up your memory. If there are very high memory intensive processes running, they are more likely to be installed by the user than by Apple. There is an app called Appcleaner that's really helpful for deleting Applications and their associated processes.
If you don't want to invest money in upgrading to a Solid State Drive or increasing your RAM, then defragging your disk might improve your performance. Failing that, a clean install of your OS always helps it feel new, though it might take time to backup/transfer your data.

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