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A way to uninstall VLC media player from your PC

This page is about VLC media player for Windows. Below you can find details on how to uninstall it from your computer. It was coded for Windows by VideoLAN. Go over here where you can get more info on VideoLAN. Click on to get more data about VLC media player on VideoLAN's website. The program is frequently located in the C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC folder (same installation drive as Windows). 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. Note that you might receive a notification for administrator rights. The application's main executable file occupies 130.52 KB (133651 bytes) on disk and is named vlc.exe.

The following executable files are incorporated in VLC media player. They occupy 501.28 KB (513307 bytes) on disk.

  • uninstall.exe (251.74 KB)
  • vlc-cache-gen.exe (119.02 KB)
  • vlc.exe (130.52 KB)


The information on this page is only about version 3.0.0201509250402 of VLC media player. For more VLC media player versions please click below:

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A way to delete VLC media player from your computer with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VLC media player is an application offered by the software company VideoLAN. Some people want to remove this program. Sometimes this is difficult because uninstalling this manually takes some knowledge related to Windows internal functioning. One of the best SIMPLE approach to remove 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, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and general utility to clean your Windows system.

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  • navigate to Download Link
  • download the program by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button
  • set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and number of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful system utility.

3. Click on 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 PC will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you locate VLC media player or simply click the Search feature and type in "VLC media player". The VLC media player program will be found automatically. After you select VLC media player in the list of applications, some data about the program is available to you:


  • Star rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating explains the opinion other people have about VLC media player, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Opinions by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
  • Technical information about the program you wish to uninstall, by clicking on the Properties button.
For example you can see that for VLC media player:





  • The web site of the application is: http://www.videolan.org/
  • The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe
7. Click the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will appear. Confirm the uninstall by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will remove VLC media player.
Uninstall VLC media player


8. After removing VLC media player, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run a cleanup. Click Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items of VLC media player that have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling VLC media player with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry entries, files or folders are left behind on your computer.

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and able to serve you properly.



Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to uninstall VLC media player by VideoLAN from your computer, we are not saying that VLC media player by VideoLAN is not a good software application. This page only contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall VLC media player in case you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.

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

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Last update on: 2015-10-09 23:18:13.453