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How to uninstall VLC media player from your system

This page contains detailed information on how to remove VLC media player for Windows. The Windows release was created by VideoLAN. More information about VideoLAN can be seen here. You can read more about related to VLC media player at . VLC media player is typically set up in the C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC folder, subject to the user's choice. The full uninstall command line for VLC media player is C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe. The application's main executable file is called vlc.exe and occupies 126.02 KB (129043 bytes).

VLC media player is comprised of the following executables which occupy 491.24 KB (503030 bytes) on disk:

  • uninstall.exe (251.70 KB)
  • vlc-cache-gen.exe (113.52 KB)
  • vlc.exe (126.02 KB)


This data is about VLC media player version 3.0.0201410070003 alone. For more VLC media player versions please click below:

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A way to delete VLC media player using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VLC media player is a program released by VideoLAN. Some users choose to uninstall it. Sometimes this is hard because doing this manually takes some skill related to removing Windows applications by hand. One of the best SIMPLE action to uninstall VLC media player is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is 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 clean your Windows PC.

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  • navigate to Download Link
  • download the program by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD NOW button
  • install Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and wealth of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful system utility.

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


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


5. All the programs installed on the PC will be shown to you

6. Navigate the list of programs until you locate VLC media player or simply click the Search field and type in "VLC media player". The VLC media player app will be found automatically. When you click VLC media player in the list of applications, some information regarding the application is shown to you:


  • Star rating (in the left lower corner). This tells you the opinion other users have regarding VLC media player, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Reviews by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
  • Technical information regarding the app you are about to uninstall, by clicking on the Properties button.
For instance you can see that for VLC media player:





  • The web site of the program 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 come up. Confirm the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then uninstall VLC media player.
Uninstall VLC media player


8. After uninstalling VLC media player, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to proceed with the cleanup. All the items that belong VLC media player that have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling VLC media player with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry items, files or folders are left behind on your PC.

Your Windows computer will remain clean, speedy and able to run without errors or problems.



Geographical user distribution

  • Windows 7 (6.1)
  • 10.0
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Disclaimer

The text above 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 application. This page only contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall VLC media player supposing you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.

2017-04-15 / Written by Andreea Kartman for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2017-04-15 18:28:22.527