Unless it is actively doing any processing, don't worry about how many processes you see.
If they aren't doing anything they will get swapped off into the pagefile.
Anti-virus and anti-spyware will kill your performance since they often want to check each file being opened, as well as actively running in the background. I'd kill those, but the rest don't worry about.
You should look through your processes every once in a while just so you know what is running, but if they are all valid then the only thing they will do is slow down the boot-up.
(and that Blackviper site is a placebo. It doesn't really help, and for people unfamiliar with what they are doing, they can create big issues)
Seriously, if your system isn't using something, it will get paged out of memory so you really don't need to worry about shutting down a lot of processes.
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Windows XP processes, how many should be running?
or if you install Acrobat reader it'll always try to put stuff in there. Mouse software (Logitech!), video card software, anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, etc.. they add up pretty fast.
