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A guide to uninstall VLC media player from your computer

VLC media player is a software application. This page contains details on how to remove it from your PC. The Windows version was created by VideoLAN. Check out here for more info on VideoLAN. Please open if you want to read more on VLC media player on VideoLAN's web page. Usually the VLC media player application is found in the C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC directory, depending on the user's option during setup. C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe is the full command line if you want to uninstall VLC media player. VLC media player's primary file takes about 129.52 KB (132627 bytes) and is named vlc.exe.

VLC media player installs the following the executables on your PC, occupying about 498.83 KB (510807 bytes) on disk.

  • uninstall.exe (251.30 KB)
  • vlc-cache-gen.exe (118.02 KB)
  • vlc.exe (129.52 KB)


The current page applies to VLC media player version 3.0.0201506020402 alone. Click on the links below for other VLC media player versions:

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A way to uninstall VLC media player from your PC with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VLC media player is an application offered by the software company VideoLAN. Sometimes, people choose to erase this application. This is efortful because deleting this manually takes some advanced knowledge related to Windows program uninstallation. One of the best EASY way 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 system, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and general tool to maximize the performance of your PC.

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  • go to Download Link
  • download the setup by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD button
  • install Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and number of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good system utility.

3. Press the General Tools button
Go to General Tools


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs feature
Go to Uninstall Programs


5. All the programs existing on the computer will appear

6. Scroll the list of programs until you find VLC media player or simply activate the Search field and type in "VLC media player". If it exists on your system the VLC media player application will be found very quickly. Notice that when you select VLC media player in the list of applications, some data regarding the application is available to you:


  • Safety rating (in the lower left corner). This tells you the opinion other people have regarding VLC media player, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Opinions by other people - Press the Read reviews button.
  • Details regarding the app you want to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.
For example 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 window will appear. Confirm the removal by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove VLC media player.
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 that have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling VLC media player using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry items, files or folders are left behind on your system.

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



Geographical user distribution

  • 10.0
  • Windows 7 (6.1)
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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. This text only contains detailed info on how to remove VLC media player in case you want to. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.

2015-06-12 / Written by Dan Armano for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2015-06-12 16:46:14.500