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VLC Media Player is published by VLC. You can find out more about VLC Media Player at its official website or at VLC's website.
VLC Media Player may store excess, temporary data on your computer that can take up valuable space. It may also store private data such as passwords or browsing history in the registry or on the file system. The easiest way to erase this data is by downloading AppCleaner, it is 100% free and about 1MB in size. A portable version is also available.
Clean VLC Media Player
with AppCleaner
If you want to clean VLC Media Player manually, you can follow the steps outlined below. There are three locations in the file system where VLC Media Player stores data that can be cleaned.
To clean your file system from files stored by VLC Media Player and to gain free disk space, examine the following file system locations. First of all, open a command prompt window:
Now list all the files stored by VLC Media Player that can be cleaned:
Once you have identified the files stored by VLC Media Player that you want to clean, delete them using the del command or Windows Explorer.