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Um, if you're having memory trouble with a windows computer, it's often a bad idea to start removing things willy-nilly unless you know a good deal about what you're doing. I don't know about those programs particularly, but at least the middle one seems to be the sort of thing that is installed with the motherboard drivers, and is used for running hardware correctly. (2nd is likely on-board audio drivers, 1st one could be on-board network drivers, dunno about the 3rd one but it could be video or somesuch, it is hard to tell since companies love choosing obtuse names)
With Windows, it's better to make backups of everything you need and them reformat the entire harddrive, reinstall Windows and start from scratch again. Yeah, it takes some time and can be annoying, but it's the only real way to get things working well again. I guess that's just how Windows rolls... which sucks, because unless you've got all your driver cds and windows cds and program cds in one place it becomes quite difficult.
From my experience, you'd need to do this maybe once every year or two, depending on how much you use your computer and what it is. My computer's probably due for a reformat sometime soon :S
If you want to get really technical about it, a good setup for a computer is to have a smallish partition of the drive set up to only run Windows and whatever other programs you want, like photoshop, etc, then you have the rest of the drive for documents and other things you want to keep. Then, when Windows goes kaput (as it is wont to do), you can reformat and reinstall windows for just the partition it's on, and the rest of the data on the disk will be fine.
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