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A guide to uninstall VLC media player from your PC

VLC media player is a software application. This page contains details on how to uninstall it from your computer. The Windows release was created by VideoLAN. Further information on VideoLAN can be found here. You can see more info on VLC media player at . Usually the VLC media player application is placed in the C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC folder, depending on the user's option during setup. You can uninstall VLC media player by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe. Keep in mind that you might get a notification for admin rights. vlc.exe is the VLC media player's primary executable file and it takes about 129.52 KB (132627 bytes) on disk.

The executable files below are installed along with VLC media player. They take about 498.83 KB (510802 bytes) on disk.

  • uninstall.exe (251.29 KB)
  • vlc-cache-gen.exe (118.02 KB)
  • vlc.exe (129.52 KB)


This info is about VLC media player version 3.0.0201503250402 only. For other VLC media player versions please click below:

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A way to delete VLC media player from your PC using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VLC media player is a program marketed by VideoLAN. Frequently, people choose to uninstall this application. This is hard because uninstalling this manually takes some knowledge related to Windows internal functioning. The best EASY action to uninstall 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 Windows system, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful uninstaller and all around utility to take care of your Windows system.

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  • navigate to Download Link
  • download the program by clicking on the DOWNLOAD NOW button
  • set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to get familiar with the program's design and number of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good package of tools.

3. Press the General Tools category
Go to General Tools


4. Press the Uninstall Programs feature
Go to Uninstall Programs


5. All the applications existing on your computer will be shown to you

6. Navigate the list of applications until you locate VLC media player or simply activate the Search feature and type in "VLC media player". If it exists on your system the VLC media player application will be found automatically. Notice that after you select VLC media player in the list of programs, some information regarding the application is shown to you:


  • Star 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 - Press the Read reviews button.
  • Details regarding the app you wish to uninstall, by clicking on the Properties button.
For instance you can see that for VLC media player:





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


8. After uninstalling VLC media player, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong VLC media player which have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling VLC media player with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry items, files or directories are left behind on your disk.

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



Geographical user distribution

  • Windows 7 (6.1)
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Disclaimer

This page is not a piece of advice to remove VLC media player by VideoLAN from your computer, nor are we saying that VLC media player by VideoLAN is not a good application. This page simply contains detailed info on how to remove VLC media player in case 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' computers.

2015-07-10 / Written by Daniel Statescu for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2015-07-10 12:02:36.713