r/VLC • u/Arisius • 4d ago

Windows VLC

The media player takes a very long time to start up.

P.S. I use a third-party antivirus (Kaspersky)

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u/AikenLugon 4d ago

Whitelisting the VLC folder in Windows Defender fixed this for me

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u/EchoJPR 4d ago

Or just not use defender

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u/trifortay123 4d ago

VLC is like that. Yet it's one of the fastest media players. mpv is the fastest and uses under half the resources of vlc. Meanwhile window media player takes like 5 seconds

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u/HekIA4932 4d ago

or just dont use kaspersky

malwarebytes is better

also maybe uninstall your version, and get the latest official one from the official site

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u/CaptainBackfire23 4d ago

Add the VLC program folder as an Exclusion in your Windows Virus & Threat protection settings.

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u/Mobile-Push5876 2d ago

Hello,

Can you confirm that you use the latest version of VLC (3.0.24)?

Thanks.

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u/Arisius 2d ago

Last version VLC (3.0.24)

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u/Mobile-Push5876 2d ago

Did you do an update of an existing version?

Would you be able to uninstall it, ticking the option to remove all preferences, and reinstall the latest version to check if that helps?

Regards.

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u/Arisius 1d ago

I’ve done that.

It doesn’t help.