Number of programs installed and number running at startup?

As the title says, how many programs do you have installed?

If I click start --> programs I have 22 (w/ accesories & IE)
If I look in add/remove programs I have 50.

I have 0 programs running at startup.

I'm interested in seeing some of your setups as far as # of programs installed and # of programs that run on startup (whether security software or not).

 

I have these:

Ad Blockers: AdBlock Plus/Element Hiding Helper with EasyList subscriptions and Ad Muncher Pro
Anti Virus: Microsoft Security Essentials
Backup: Windows Backup
Browsers (+ Extensions): Internet Explorer (+ WOT) and Mozilla Firefox (+ ColorfulTabs, Download Manager Tweak, DownloadHelper, SmoothWheel, TV-Fox and WOT)
Desktop Mail: Windows Live Mail
Firewall: Windows Firewall and Router Built-in Firewall
Feed Management: FeedBurner
Encryption and File Management: Windows BitLocker, Windows Explorer, Windows Double Explorer and WinZip Pro
Finance Management: AceMoney
Games: Atrativa Sinuca Bola8, Garena (+ Half Life 1 with Counter Strike 1.6, Half Life 2 with Counter Strike Source, sXe Injected and Warcraft 3 TFT with war3 map pack) and PokerStars
Instant Messaging: Windows Live Messenger (+ Messenger Plus! Live with scripts NudgeTools and TypingInvisible)
File Sharing: FrostWire
Image Editing: Paint.net and Windows Paint
Password Management: Syber Systems RoboForm Pro + GoodSync Pro
PC Manutention and Tune-up: DigitalVolcano Duplicate Cleaner, MyDefrag, PC Tools Registry Mechanic, PCWinTech CleanMem, Piriform Ccleaner Slim, Windows Task Manager, Windows Task Scheduler and xp-AntiSpy
PDF Management: Adobe Reader and AnyBizSoft PDF Password Remover
Photo Management: Windows Live Photo Gallery
Plugin Runtimes: Adobe Flash Player, Microsoft Silverlight and Sun Java RE
Math Operations: Windows Calculator
Media Converter: ImToo MPEG Encoder Ultimate
Media Tools: Daemon Tools Lite and ImgBurn
Media Player: VLC Media Player and Windows Media Player
Mega Wipe: Jetico BCWipe Total WipeOut
Mobile Phone Tools: SonyEricsson PC Suite
Office Suite: Sun OpenOffice.org
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x86
Security Tools: JavaCool SpywareBlaster and MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Tag Editor: Mp3tag
Tibia: Blackd Proxy, Cipsoft Tibia Client (+ tibia map pack) and Tibia OT Loader
Torrent: uTorrent
Update Management: KC SUMo, Microsoft Update and Secunia PSI
Video Editing: Windows Live Movie Maker
+ all the rest of Win7 Ultimate built-in software not mentioned

And very few at startup: Ad Muncher Pro, GoodSync Pro, Microsoft Security Essentials and RoboForm Pro. Windows Services were tweaked by Registry Mechanic, mostly are settled to Manual.

 

Number of programs installed including portable apps =89
Startup = 2

 

Pretty much (like andyman35 I suspect) try and keep to a minimum using portables, thinapps, vms and layers, and have little in the way of start-ups - looking now I had a kernel fault check which I have now stopped and a runonce which was a clean up/wipe.

 

22 if you count SBIE services with a browser open.

I have only a handful of 'installed' apps. Most of mine have been copied/pasted from real installations along with some registry settings they need. If I could get rid of the rundll32 that goes along with the nvidia driver, there would be one less lol.

Sul.

 

Are "unzip and use" apps being counted or only those that are installed?

 

Personally I am only counting those that actually require installation to run. I have many many apps that are simply as you say 'unzip and run'. I don't use them all the time, thus they are there when I need them but never really 'installed'. Usually I unzip them to desktop, run them, then delete them.

Just my opinion anyway.

Sul.

 

revo uninstaller found 76 progs installed. Plus i have about 50 or so portable apps and 2 games and 5 programs installed inside their respective sandbox.

Programs at startup = 5 including avast 5 beta and the slow loading ati catalyst.

 

On my laptop, 35 programs installed, 8 apps run at startup. Bluetooh, Skype, some Lenovo Thinkpad utilities, antivirus, gotomeeting.

If I had an old underpowered machine, I'd probably go and trim that down, but I have 4 gigs of RAM in this laptop, a core 2 duo, and a 7,200rpm hard drive...plus my laptop probably only truely shuts down once every couple of months..the rest of the time it's standby mode several times a day. I like to use what I paid for.