VLC media player

How to uninstall VLC media player from your PC

This page contains detailed information on how to remove VLC media player for Windows. It is made by The VLC Team. You can read more on The VLC Team or check for application updates here. More details about the app VLC media player can be found at http://www.videolan.org/. Usually the VLC media player application is to be found in the C:\Program Files (x86)\VLC media player directory, 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 MsiExec.exe /X{B5B8E9C9-0471-49BE-8844-FF9F4CA31B81}. Note that you might receive a notification for administrator rights. The application's main executable file occupies 123.50 KB (126464 bytes) on disk and is titled vlc.exe.

The executable files below are part of VLC media player. They occupy an average of 288.61 KB (295538 bytes) on disk.

• spad-setup.exe (53.61 KB)
• vlc-cache-gen.exe (111.50 KB)
• vlc.exe (123.50 KB)

The information on this page is only about version 2.1.0 of VLC media player.

A way to remove VLC media player with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VLC media player is an application by The VLC Team. Sometimes, people decide to uninstall this program. This is hard because doing this manually takes some experience related to removing Windows programs manually. The best EASY practice 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 already installed on your PC, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and all around tool to maximize the performance of your system.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the program by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and wealth of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful package of tools.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs feature


5. A list of the programs installed on the PC will be made available to you

6. Navigate the list of programs until you find VLC media player or simply activate the Search feature and type in "VLC media player". The VLC media player app will be found very quickly. Notice that after you select VLC media player in the list of programs, some information regarding the application is available to you:

• Star rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other people have regarding VLC media player, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the app you wish to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for VLC media player:

• The publisher is: http://www.videolan.org/
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{B5B8E9C9-0471-49BE-8844-FF9F4CA31B81}

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will come up. Confirm the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically uninstall VLC media player.


8. After removing VLC media player, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run a cleanup. Press Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items of VLC media player which have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling VLC media player with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry items, files or directories are left behind on your disk.

Your Windows system will remain clean, speedy and ready to serve you properly.

Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to remove VLC media player by The VLC Team from your computer, we are not saying that VLC media player by The VLC Team is not a good software application. This page only 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 Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.