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A guide to uninstall VLC media player from your system

You can find on this page detailed information on how to remove VLC media player for Windows. It was coded for Windows by VideoLAN. You can read more on VideoLAN or check for application updates here. Click on to get more info about VLC media player on VideoLAN's website. VLC media player is commonly installed in the C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC folder, subject to the user's decision. C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe is the full command line if you want to remove VLC media player. VLC media player's primary file takes around 126.02 KB (129043 bytes) and is called vlc.exe.

VLC media player installs the following the executables on your PC, occupying about 491.20 KB (502990 bytes) on disk.

  • uninstall.exe (251.66 KB)
  • vlc-cache-gen.exe (113.52 KB)
  • vlc.exe (126.02 KB)


The information on this page is only about version 3.0.0201501080002 of VLC media player. For other VLC media player versions please click below:

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How to delete VLC media player from your PC using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VLC media player is an application by VideoLAN. Sometimes, users want to erase this application. Sometimes this is efortful because deleting this by hand takes some advanced knowledge related to PCs. The best SIMPLE way 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 PC, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful uninstaller and all around tool to take care of your PC.

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  • download the program by pressing the green DOWNLOAD button
  • install Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design 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. Press the Uninstall Programs button
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 click the Search field and type in "VLC media player". The VLC media player program will be found very quickly. Notice that when you click VLC media player in the list of applications, some data about the application is made available to you:


  • Star rating (in the left lower corner). This tells you the opinion other users have about VLC media player, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Reviews by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
  • Details about the app you want to remove, by pressing the Properties button.
For instance you can see that for VLC media player:





  • The web site of the application 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 uninstall by pressing 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. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items of VLC media player which have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling VLC media player with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry items, files or directories are left behind on your system.

Your PC 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 PC, we are not saying that VLC media player by VideoLAN is not a good application for your computer. This page simply contains detailed instructions 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 Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.

2015-03-14 / Written by Daniel Statescu for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2015-03-14 10:04:54.860