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How to uninstall VLC media player from your PC

You can find on this page details on how to uninstall VLC media player for Windows. It was developed for Windows by VideoLAN. Take a look here where you can find out more on VideoLAN. Detailed information about VLC media player can be found at . Usually the VLC media player program is found in the C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC folder, depending on the user's option during install. You can uninstall VLC media player by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe. Keep in mind that you might receive a notification for administrator rights. The program's main executable file is named vlc.exe and occupies 126.02 KB (129043 bytes).

The executable files below are part of VLC media player. They occupy an average of 521.91 KB (534433 bytes) on disk.

  • uninstall.exe (282.37 KB)
  • vlc-cache-gen.exe (113.52 KB)
  • vlc.exe (126.02 KB)


This web page is about VLC media player version 3.0.0201603010002 alone. Click on the links below for other VLC media player versions:

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How to uninstall VLC media player with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VLC media player is an application by the software company VideoLAN. Sometimes, people try to erase this program. This can be troublesome because removing this by hand takes some experience related to Windows internal functioning. One of the best QUICK action to erase VLC media player is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows system, add it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and all around utility to maximize the performance of your Windows computer.

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  • go to Download Link
  • download the setup by pressing the DOWNLOAD NOW button
  • set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to admire the program's interface and wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful package of tools.

3. Click on the General Tools category
Go to General Tools


4. Press the Uninstall Programs feature
Go to Uninstall Programs


5. A list of the applications installed on the PC will be made available to you

6. Navigate the list of applications until you find VLC media player or simply click the Search feature and type in "VLC media player". If it is installed on your PC the VLC media player app will be found automatically. Notice that when you select VLC media player in the list , some data regarding the program is available to you:


  • Safety rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other users have regarding VLC media player, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Reviews by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
  • Technical information regarding the program you want to remove, by pressing the Properties button.
For example you can see that for VLC media player:





  • The software company is: http://www.videolan.org/
  • The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe
7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will come up. Confirm the removal by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall VLC media player.
Uninstall VLC media player


8. After removing VLC media player, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Click Next to proceed with the cleanup. All the items that belong VLC media player which have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By removing VLC media player with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry items, files or directories are left behind on your system.

Your PC will remain clean, speedy and ready to run without errors or problems.



Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to remove VLC media player by VideoLAN from your computer, we are not saying that VLC media player by VideoLAN is not a good application for your computer. This page only contains detailed info on how to remove VLC media player supposing you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.

2016-07-16 / Written by Dan Armano for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2016-07-15 21:32:41.567