But it was never the number of "open programs" that brought people's windows systems to a crawl -- it was always horribly written services: virus scanners, prel

But it was never the number of "open programs" that brought people's windows systems to a crawl -- it was always horribly written services: virus scanners, preloaders, viruses, etc. Windows 7 Starter Edition does not in any way limit the number of Windows Services you can have running!