Uninstall with no uninstall icon?

[franhigg]

VLC has been a complete train wreck for me on Windows ME, with freezes, crashes and other horrors. I want to uninstall the whole thing, but there is no uninstall icon, and it does not appear in the Add/Remove Programs list in the control panel. Could someone kindly tell me whether, and if so how, I can nevertheless uninstall?

Thanks in advance!

[DJ]

This was an issue for some in versions prior to version 0.8.6 or 6a.

You can just erase the VideoLAN folder in Program Files. This only leaves the associations for VLC in your registry. You can steal back the associations with Any other media player or alternately do a search for VLC.EXE with regedit and delete all entries and then steal the associations back. There are no DLLs installed on your system.

However, the only thing you need for VLC to work on Windows 9x is Microsoft's Unicode, DirectX 9c and updated audio and video drivers that work with DirectX 9c.

[franhigg]

Thanks! I have version 0.8.6, and as far as I know DirectX 9c also (I have just downloaded MediaPlayer 9, and as it reports that there are no new updates I assume that I have up-to-date DirectX - can I confirm this directly?)

VLC will often start ok, but midway through is liable to just blank out, freezing or crashing everything in the process. I have had huge problems with files getting corrupted by this, and don't want to repeat the experience, but any further suggestions as to how I might use VLC without wrecking my system would be gratefully received - I am quite keen to get it to work! All the updates for Windows ME have been installed.

[DJ]

VLC or other media players do NOT corrupt files by playing or attempting to play them.

[franhigg]

VLC or other media players do NOT corrupt files by playing or attempting to play them.

I wasn't suggesting that they did. What I did say was that the crashes and freezes that VLC caused resulted in corrupted files, because the only thing to be done was to disconnect the power supply and reboot.

[DJ]

I have version 0.8.6, and as far as I know DirectX 9c also (I have just downloaded MediaPlayer 9, and as it reports that there are no new updates I assume that I have up-to-date DirectX - can I confirm this directly?)

No Media Player does updates for DirectX.

What I did say was that the crashes and freezes that VLC caused resulted in corrupted files, because the only thing to be done was to disconnect the power supply and reboot.

I'm not sure how this is different, but giving the benifet of the doubt, open a DOS box and type chkdsk c: /f and sub the drive letter for all other hard drives. Answer yes "y" to any prompt. Then reboot your machine.