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A guide to uninstall VLC media player from your computer

VLC media player is a computer program. This page holds details on how to remove it from your PC. It was created for Windows by VideoLAN. Go over here where you can get more info on VideoLAN. Please follow if you want to read more on VLC media player on VideoLAN's web page. The program is often placed in the C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC directory (same installation drive as Windows). C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe is the full command line if you want to uninstall VLC media player. VLC media player's main file takes about 126.02 KB (129043 bytes) and is called vlc.exe.

The following executables are installed alongside VLC media player. They occupy about 490.98 KB (502766 bytes) on disk.

  • uninstall.exe (251.95 KB)
  • vlc-cache-gen.exe (113.02 KB)
  • vlc.exe (126.02 KB)


This info is about VLC media player version 3.0.0201507080003 only. You can find below info on other versions of VLC media player:

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

VLC media player is an application released by VideoLAN. Frequently, computer users try to erase this program. Sometimes this can be efortful because deleting this manually takes some know-how regarding PCs. One of the best QUICK solution 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 already installed on your Windows system, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very potent uninstaller and general utility to maximize the performance of your Windows computer.

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  • download the program by clicking on the DOWNLOAD NOW button
  • set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful Windows optimizer.

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


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs button
Go to Uninstall Programs


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

6. Scroll the list of applications until you locate VLC media player or simply click the Search field and type in "VLC media player". If it is installed on your PC the VLC media player app will be found very quickly. When you select VLC media player in the list , the following data about the application is shown to you:


  • Safety rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating explains the opinion other users have about VLC media player, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Reviews by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
  • Technical information about the app you are about to remove, 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. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation window will come up. accept the removal by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then uninstall VLC media player.
Uninstall VLC media player


8. After removing VLC media player, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong VLC media player that have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By removing VLC media player with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured 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

The text above is not a piece of advice 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 PC. This page only contains detailed info on how to remove VLC media player supposing you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.

2015-09-04 / Written by Daniel Statescu for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2015-09-04 08:37:32.653