Most of those suggestions are right on the money, I see that ati-ccc and ati's cli consume resources and extend your startup time quiet a bit, the most common recommendation for this by other ati users is to isntall the omega driver's without .net or ccc, or install the previous ati catalyst whql signed drivers with ati-traytools rather than CCC; you can find more about the ccc issues at any forum that deals with ati omega drivers if you look for it.

IIS ? you'd have to disable each service individually, smtp, ftp, etc.. remember the ncacn_ip_?? your work's net admin probly knows it's not a good idea to mess with rpc since it's complicated but the individual services like smtp and ftp are similar to the netbios helper sssomething or other, the service needs to be switched to disabled for the port to actually close, probly won't take effect untill after you reboot and vm/rd may not work unless it starts it's own rpc port state.. etc.. gotta go for now.