Windows 7 TCP Listen Ports

My fresh install of Windows 7 shows 5 programs listening on TCP ephermeral ports:

 TCP    0.0.0.0:49152          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
 TCP    0.0.0.0:49153          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
 TCP    0.0.0.0:49154          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
 TCP    0.0.0.0:49155          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
 TCP    0.0.0.0:49157          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING

netstat -ano shows that one of the processes is wininit.exe.

Why is wininit.exe listening for TCP traffic and how do I prevent it? (I don't want to have to firewall it).

Ports 135, 49152, 49153, 49154, 49155, 49156, & 49157 are all associated with MSRPC. You may want to try to turn it off in Services list.