Now the tricky bit is to work out what you don't want.
YES !

However there's no definative 'its bad list' - it just grows & grows & grows ... at the risk of labouring the point yet more, without a list of 'known startup applications & processes' you are gonna have your work cut out !

We need to know what shouldn't be there, well that's what we can't identify as 'good/required' ..

You seem to be back to front on this particular aspect .. you probably like me immediately 'know' which ones to be looking at (you say so) but what about them that don't ? With a list like this you can tick off lots of 'strange stuff' knowing what its for & concentrate on the 'unfound' stuff ..

I'll shut up now !