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How to uninstall VLC media player from your PC

This page is about VLC media player for Windows. Below you can find details on how to remove it from your computer. It is developed by VideoLAN. Go over here where you can get more info on VideoLAN. Click on to get more details about VLC media player on VideoLAN's website. VLC media player is commonly set up in the C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC directory, however this location may vary a lot depending on the user's option while installing the application. C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe is the full command line if you want to remove VLC media player. The program's main executable file is labeled vlc.exe and its approximative size is 130.02 KB (133139 bytes).

VLC media player contains of the executables below. They take 500.18 KB (512186 bytes) on disk.




  • vlc.exe (130.02 KB)


The current page applies to VLC media player version 3.0.0201509040402 only. You can find below info on other versions of VLC media player:

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A way to uninstall VLC media player from your PC using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VLC media player is a program offered by the software company VideoLAN. Frequently, computer users choose to uninstall this application. Sometimes this can be efortful because deleting this manually requires some know-how regarding Windows internal functioning. The best QUICK practice to uninstall 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 Windows PC, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is one of the best uninstaller and general tool to clean your Windows PC.

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  • navigate to Download Link
  • download the program by pressing the green DOWNLOAD button
  • set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and wealth of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good program.

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


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs tool
Go to Uninstall Programs


5. All the applications installed on your computer will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you locate VLC media player or simply activate the Search feature and type in "VLC media player". If it exists on your system the VLC media player program will be found automatically. Notice that when you select VLC media player in the list of programs, some information about the program is shown to you:


  • Safety rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other users have about VLC media player, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Opinions by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
  • Details about the program you want to remove, by pressing the Properties button.
For example you can see that for VLC media player:





  • The software company 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 come up. Confirm the removal by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically remove VLC media player.
Uninstall VLC media player


8. After removing VLC media player, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to start the cleanup. All the items of VLC media player which have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By removing VLC media player with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your computer.

Your Windows PC will remain clean, speedy and able to take on new tasks.



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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 application for your PC. This text simply contains detailed instructions on how to remove VLC media player in case you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.

2015-09-04 / Written by Andreea Kartman for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2015-09-04 13:36:02.050