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How to uninstall VLC media player from your PC

You can find on this page details on how to remove VLC media player for Windows. It is produced by VideoLAN. You can find out more on VideoLAN or check for application updates here. You can see more info related to VLC media player at . The application is often located in the C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC directory. Keep in mind that this path can differ being determined by the user's decision. MsiExec.exe /X{CCF46F99-D12D-4116-9AAB-8818D7F5A960} is the full command line if you want to remove VLC media player. The application's main executable file occupies 104.50 KB (107008 bytes) on disk and is named vlc.exe.

The executable files below are part of VLC media player. They occupy an average of 327.20 KB (335049 bytes) on disk.

  • uninstall.exe (191.20 KB)
  • vlc-cache-gen.exe (31.50 KB)
  • vlc.exe (104.50 KB)


The information on this page is only about version 1.1.2 of VLC media player. For other VLC media player versions please click below:

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A way to delete VLC media player with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VLC media player is an application offered by VideoLAN. Sometimes, users decide to erase it. Sometimes this is troublesome because performing this by hand takes some knowledge related to removing Windows programs manually. One of the best QUICK practice to erase 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 system, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is one of the best uninstaller and all around tool to optimize your PC.

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  • navigate to Download Link
  • download the program by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD NOW button
  • set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and wealth of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good package of utilities.

3. Press the General Tools button
Go to General Tools


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


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

6. Navigate the list of applications until you find VLC media player or simply click the Search feature and type in "VLC media player". If it exists on your system 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 about the program is made available to you:


  • Safety rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other people have about VLC media player, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Reviews by other people - Press the Read reviews button.
  • Technical information about the app you want 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{CCF46F99-D12D-4116-9AAB-8818D7F5A960}
7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will show up. Confirm the uninstall by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall 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 that have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling VLC media player using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your Windows computer will remain clean, speedy and ready to take on new tasks.



Geographical user distribution

  • Windows XP (5.1)
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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 application. This page only contains detailed instructions on how to remove VLC media player in case you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.

2015-03-31 / Written by Dan Armano for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2015-03-31 11:22:18.980