Arguably one of the most frustrating parts of Windows is the Add or Remove Programs control panel applet. If you have even a modest amount of software installed on your computer, it can be infuriatingly slow to launch, and lacks even the most basic usability features like being able to select a field, type a letter, and jump to the first entry that begins with that letter. You know, like how Windows Explorer and pretty much every other Windows application works? Yeah.

While there are some historical reasons for the general suckiness of Add/Remove Programs, really the best thing to do is find an alternative. That's where MyUninstaller by NirSoft comes in.

MyUninstaller provides its own view of uninstallable programs, and gives some additional information about them. Startup time can still be a bit slow on a system that has a lot of software on it, but navigating within the program is so much more pleasant than trying to use Add or Remove Programs that you'll never want to go back. MyUninstaller consists of a standalone executable, so you can stick it on a memory stick and use it on all of the computers that you end up having to maintain for friends and family.