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Best app to manage installed programs?

Best app to manage installed programs?

If you're a super user you'd probably have 100s of programs installed on some PC that you use. Now when going through the "Add or Remove Programs" list in Windows XP, or the "Programs and Features" table in Vista, you still cannot:

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Guest [Entry]

"RevoUninstaller helps a bit and,
There is also UpdateNotifier for programs that work with it."
Guest [Entry]

"Free Uninstaller is what you are looking out for

It provides a vastly improved interface which highlights system entries in blue and invalid entries in red. You can lookup more information about any software or its manufacturer from the web (Google, Yahoo and Live Search are supported). Other features include the ability to uninstall multiple programs together, to delete invalid entries, to backup registry, to export list of installed, to sort installed softwares according to various parameters.

You should also take a look at this post, it will help you decide which one suits you best"
Guest [Entry]

I agree with the recommendation of RevoUninstaller, but want to make mention of WinDirStat as another tool to help address your second point. WinDirStat is an excellent utility to view disk space usage. It's both free and can be portable for use from USB drives.