What is the pboard in activity monitor?

In my activity monitor, it says that the 'pbs' is taking up 800KB, the AppleIDAuthAgent is taking 1,000KB, and the ARDAgent is taking about 900KB of my memory.
What do these programs do? Can I shut them down or do I need to have them running?

Those are all built-in system processes and they're using negligible amounts of memory. I suggest you leave them alone.

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I believe they reinstalled the OS and if I remember correctly I just did a recovery with the Time Machine backup I had.
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Should I be worried or visiting the Apple store again?

OK, done.
I created a text.txt document containing the words "Version 0". I saved it to the Desktop, closed it and selected "Back Up Now" from the Finder.
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I repeated this for the subsequent version. Now I have three restored text.txt documents, plus the one on the Desktop.
I opened all four text.txt documents and stacked them as shown in the following screenshot:
Conclusion, no surprises that I can determine.
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