> Just to keep your graphics card drivers automatically updated. Auto-updaters are a bane unto themselves of annoying crap running in the background. As are "

> Just to keep your graphics card drivers automatically updated. Auto-updaters are a bane unto themselves of annoying crap running in the background. As are "quicklaunch" agents, or anything which claims to be some sort of "agent" to improve the user experience of their software. Most of it delivers very little value, and who knows what the hell data it is hoovering up.