My laptop doubles as a digital audio workstation. When used in that capacity, there is a whole bunch o' stuff that needs to die, be killed or go away quietly or otherwise.

There is a handy dandy and free tool "out there" called "End It All". A quick yahoo will probably bring up dozens of places to download it. You run this thing, train it a tiny bit, and viola! The goopage is there when I'm on the 'net and need it, and gone when I don't.

Here's one place to get it: http://www.docsdownloads.com/enditall-1.htm