About Add Remove Programs

Add Remove Programs (ARP) is a community-powered resource for IT professionals working in enterprise application management—packaging, deployment, silent installs, customization, upgrade strategies, and the countless real-world edge cases that documentation tends to skip.

The site strives to cover every application, but focuses primarily on popular applications, prioritizing those that receive the most attention from the community—measured through activities like contributions, follows, votes, and visits.

This project was created and is maintained by Bob Kelly, founder of AppDeploy.com and ITNinja.com, a long-time contributor to the application management community, former Microsoft MVP, and author of several books and papers on deployment. Today, Bob is Chief Product Officer and board member at Juriba, a company focused on IT change and application management solutions. This site, however, is a personal project, not affiliated with Juriba or any sponsor. It’s a continuation of a decades-long commitment to supporting the community of IT professionals managing enterprise software.

What You’ll Find

Community Notes

Short, focused posts contributed by IT professionals—deployment tips, PSADT snippets, detection rules, transforms, config tweaks, registry keys, post-install steps, rollback tips, and screenshots. These notes are the richest source of knowledge on the site and are positioned prominently on each app page. See the newest and most popular community notes here.

Follow & Personal Feed

You can follow applications to track updates and new notes for just the software you care about. Your feed will highlight recent activity on followed apps. A custom RSS feed is also available.

ARP Score

Each update is assigned a simple ARP Score from 1–10 to help you quickly assess the likely importance of a new release. This early-stage signal is designed to evolve based on feedback and usage patterns.

Additional Application Insights

Application pages include metadata valuable to IT professionals—release version history, known update cadence, helpful vendor links, and other reference points that provide context for managing that application.

Updates & Version History

Track what changed, when, and how often. Each application includes its release history as available.

Monitoring & Notifications

The majority of applications are checked for updates periodically. You can request more aggressive (daily) monitoring for any application by using the “Request daily” link by the monitoring status on any given application page.

Voting & Feedback

Every Community Note and data card can be upvoted or downvoted to help surface useful contributions. You may also use the “Report” option on any app page to flag inaccuracies or missing content.

Suggest & Vote on Applications

If an application you use isn’t listed, you can suggest it. Others can vote on suggestions, helping the most-requested entries get prioritized for inclusion.

Contributing & Recognition

Anyone can sign in using LinkedIn or create a local site account to contribute.

You can:

  • Add new Community Notes
  • Reply to existing notes
  • Edit your own submissions
  • Vote on helpful content
  • Suggest new applications

The site includes a running Leaderboard that recognizes active contributors. Current point values:

  • Community Note: 5 points
  • Approved Application Suggestion: 8 points
  • Voting: 0.25 points per vote

This system is evolving but designed to reward meaningful contributions without becoming a distraction.

Getting Started