Constantly running 5-10 programs in the background

I have a i5 and i can barley open the program. It takes so much computing power for no reason. I wanted to uninstall photoshop etc cause they're extremely expensive but I had to do it through CC not the windows default remove programs. Getting CC open was a massive pain, kept updating and crashing at 3%

IDK why every program adobe makes is barley functional on anything but a 2000$ gaming rig. Gotta say, adobe should have high prices because 95% of people wouldn't ever use adobe programs even if they were free, gotta charge the ignorant 5% a lot moreto make up for it