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This worked for me, but then it stopped working a couple years later, until I remarked out the change in by hosts file. I had completely forgotten that I had found this answer then and used the fix, so I never changed it back and eventually the fix quit so I removed it and went back to no active ent...

I have a fairly fast computer, however, I thought that the startup was sluggish. My VLC is installed in C:\Program Files\VideoLan\VLC which is a directory that requires administrative permissions to modify. I noticed in C:\Program Files\VideoLan\VLC\plugins that there was no "plugins.dat"...