yeah killing a few process that are only 40k kilobytes isn't going to make a huge impact on performance. Pc specs?
You have quite a few thermal temp controls/view programs. Thermal radar isn't really necessary if you haven't oc'ed your system it's not needed. You can close that, unless your room gets incredibly hot and you have to manage temps, even then it seems unnecessary.
A few asus mobo specific programs. Yeah i'd look into upgrading actual parts, you can't really optimize windows kernel programming. If you wanna go deep into custom programming etc. i'd take a look at linux and some videos. But for hte most part it's much easier to just upgrade your hardware.