Oh Flying Fiddle Sticks - it did it again. Lithium/eBay is definitely off my Christmas card list, cheerful though the appearance of sheer incompetence in others can be.

From Wikipedia:

Easybits

The company initially announced a line of parental control software in 2003... . Its goal was to offer a safe and educational environment for children.... As an operating system for Windows-based PCs and parental control software, Magic Desktop has been pre-installed on HP computers since 2005 up to present time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easybits

Safe to bin, for sure.

If you turn other stuff off (Photoshop and the like) in the autostart category, it merely means that they will need to be launched manually when required. This means they will appear to be slightly slower to start, as they won't be running in the background (and guzzling resources.) It's worth experimenting to see what best suits your own useage. It might actually be worth the convenience of having frequently-used programs start with the system, even if that delays system start. Try it and see.

It's also worth researching unrecognised stuff on the internet. This can be time-consuming, but worthwhile. The less that starts unnecessarily, the better.

I'm sitting here getting fatter and fatter and really  should go for a stroll. Trouble is, every time I get up it starts drizzling again. I'm a complete wimp, and prefer not getting soaked. *Sigh.*