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How to uninstall VLC media player from your PC

This info is about VLC media player for Windows. Below you can find details on how to remove it from your PC. The Windows release was developed by VideoLAN. Check out here where you can read more on VideoLAN. Click on to get more facts about VLC media player on VideoLAN's website. Usually the VLC media player program is placed in the C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC directory, depending on the user's option during install. The full command line for uninstalling VLC media player is C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe. Note that if you will type this command in Start / Run Note you might be prompted for admin rights. vlc.exe is the programs's main file and it takes close to 124.02 KB (126995 bytes) on disk.

VLC media player is comprised of the following executables which occupy 487.78 KB (499490 bytes) on disk:

  • uninstall.exe (251.75 KB)
  • vlc-cache-gen.exe (112.02 KB)
  • vlc.exe (124.02 KB)


The current web page applies to VLC media player version 3.0.0201407120159 alone. You can find below info on other application versions of VLC media player:

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

VLC media player is an application by VideoLAN. Sometimes, people try to erase this application. Sometimes this is troublesome because doing this manually requires some advanced knowledge related to PCs. The best SIMPLE solution to erase 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 on your Windows system, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is one of the best uninstaller and all around tool to optimize your Windows system.

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  • go to Download Link
  • download the program by pressing the DOWNLOAD button
  • install Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with the program's design and wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful package of utilities.

3. Press the General Tools button
Go to General Tools


4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool
Go to Uninstall Programs


5. A list of the applications existing on the PC will be shown to you

6. Navigate the list of applications 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 automatically. Notice that when you click VLC media player in the list of programs, some data about the application is made available to you:


  • Star rating (in the lower left corner). This tells you the opinion other users have about VLC media player, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Reviews by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
  • Technical information about the application you wish to remove, by pressing 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 confirmation page will come up. Confirm the uninstall by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically 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 start 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 can be sure that no registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your system.

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



Geographical user distribution

  • Windows XP (5.1)
  • 10.0
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Disclaimer

This page is not a piece of advice 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 instructions on how to remove VLC media player supposing you want to. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.

2016-11-15 / Written by Dan Armano for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2016-11-15 19:18:25.460