[Rodney King]

Since you guys know computers, I was wondering if you could help me with something. At any given time if I do a ctrl-alt-dlt I have like 31 processes running. What are all these, what can I do to get rid of them? These are waht I have right now:

opera.exe (browser)
taskmgr.exe
zonealarm.exe
msnmsgr.exe
ctfmon.exe
qttask.exe
LMpdpsrv.exe
McVSEscn.ece
MCAGENT.exe
MCVSSHLD.exe
ATIPTAXX.exe
Explorer.exe
VSMON.exe
Spoolsv.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe again, and somtimes there are 3 or 4 of these
mdm.exe
svchost.exe again
svchost.exe again
mcvsrte.exe
lsass.exe
services.exe
winlogon.exe
ati2EVXX.exe
csrss.exe
smss.exe
msmsgs.exe
mcvsftsn.exe
system
system idle process

Many thanks to anyone who can help me!!

[Clinging Bitterly]

That looks typical. Those are mostly services that are running as part of the operating system. You can search the names on Google, or wherever, and find out what they do.