VLC Media Player

How to uninstall VLC Media Player from your computer

You can find below details on how to uninstall VLC Media Player for Windows. The Windows release was created by VideoLAN Team. Open here where you can read more on VideoLAN Team. Detailed information about VLC Media Player can be found at http://www.videolan.org/videolan. The program is frequently installed in the C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC folder (same installation drive as Windows). The full uninstall command line for VLC Media Player is rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:\WINDOWS\INF\vlc.inf,Uninstall,0. vlc.exe is the programs's main file and it takes around 104.50 KB (107008 bytes) on disk.

VLC Media Player contains of the executables below. They take 327.10 KB (334946 bytes) on disk.

• uninstall.exe (191.10 KB)
• vlc-cache-gen.exe (31.50 KB)
• vlc.exe (104.50 KB)

The information on this page is only about version 1.1.7 of VLC Media Player. You can find below a few links to other VLC Media Player releases:

• 1.0.1
• 1.0.3
• 1.1.11
• 1.0.5
• 1.1.6

How to remove VLC Media Player from your computer using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VLC Media Player is a program offered by the software company VideoLAN Team. Sometimes, computer users want to remove this program. This can be troublesome because removing this manually requires some knowledge related to removing Windows applications by hand. The best QUICK action to remove VLC Media Player is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here are some detailed instructions about how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your PC, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very efficient uninstaller and general tool to take care of your PC.

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• go to Download Link
• download the program by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD NOW button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to get familiar with the program's design and wealth of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful program.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool


5. A list of the applications existing on your computer will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find VLC Media Player or simply click the Search feature and type in "VLC Media Player". If it exists on your system the VLC Media Player program will be found very quickly. Notice that after you click VLC Media Player in the list of applications, the following data regarding the program is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the left lower corner). This explains the opinion other people have regarding VLC Media Player, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the application you are about to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for VLC Media Player:

• The web site of the application is: http://www.videolan.org/videolan
• The uninstall string is: rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:\WINDOWS\INF\vlc.inf,Uninstall,0

7. Click the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will appear. accept the uninstall by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall VLC Media Player.


8. After uninstalling VLC Media Player, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items of VLC Media Player which have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By removing VLC Media Player with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and ready to take on new tasks.

Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to uninstall VLC Media Player by VideoLAN Team from your PC, nor are we saying that VLC Media Player by VideoLAN Team is not a good application for your computer. This page simply contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall VLC Media Player supposing you want to. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.