Originally Posted by
Norellicus
Okay, I know what you're referring to now, you see the "1 program running" under your username on the welcome screen when you come back from sleep mode, yes?
Assuming that you are leaving absolutely nothing running on the taskbar when you enter sleep mode, it's very likely just some application running in your systray that is not flagging itself as a persistent system service, so windows treats it as an "application" for the purposes of that counter.
Stuff like uTorrent would cause this as well since it is technically not a persistent system service and simply resides in the systray instead of creating a taskbar button. If you want to be doubly sure, try taking another screenshot of your task manager just before you go into sleep mode, and compare it to one immediately after you login from sleep mode.