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A guide to uninstall VLC media player from your system

This page is about VLC media player for Windows. Below you can find details on how to remove it from your PC. The Windows version was developed by VideoLAN. Additional info about VideoLAN can be found here. You can read more about about VLC media player at . The application is usually located in the C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC folder. Take into account that this location can vary depending on the user's decision. C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe is the full command line if you want to remove VLC media player. The application's main executable file is called vlc.exe and it has a size of 126.52 KB (129555 bytes).

VLC media player contains of the executables below. They take 492.45 KB (504270 bytes) on disk.




  • uninstall.exe (251.91 KB)
  • vlc-cache-gen.exe (114.02 KB)
  • vlc.exe (126.52 KB)


The information on this page is only about version 3.0.0201509210002 of VLC media player. Click on the links below for other VLC media player versions:

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How to uninstall VLC media player from your computer using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VLC media player is an application marketed by VideoLAN. Sometimes, people try to erase it. Sometimes this is difficult because deleting this by hand requires some advanced knowledge regarding removing Windows applications by hand. One of the best EASY approach 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 efficient uninstaller and general utility to clean your Windows system.

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  • go to Download Link
  • download the setup by pressing the DOWNLOAD NOW button
  • set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and number of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful package of utilities.

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


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


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

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find 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 automatically. When you click VLC media player in the list of programs, the following data regarding the application is available to you:


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





  • The publisher is: http://www.videolan.org/
  • The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe
7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will show up. accept the removal by clicking 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 an additional cleanup. Click Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items that belong VLC media player which 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 entries, files or directories are left behind on your computer.

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



Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to remove VLC media player by VideoLAN from your computer, nor are we saying that VLC media player by VideoLAN is not a good software application. This text only contains detailed info on how to remove VLC media player supposing 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.

2016-09-07 / Written by Andreea Kartman for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2016-09-07 12:58:35.107