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Should I remove AVS Media Player?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
24% remove it76% keep it
Overall Sentiment
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How common is it?
Global Rank #18,301
United States Rank #20,184
Reach 0.0129%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 79.71 days
937.11 days >
Average installed length: 492.38 days


VersionDistribution 100.00%

Typically installed together

Other programs by Online Media Technologies

AVS Media Player

What is AVS Media Player?  (from Online Media Technologies)

Open videos with almost any file extension such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, DVR-MS, MKV, FLV, OGG, etc. with AVS Media Player. AVS Media Player supports of 3.1, 5.1 and 7.1 speaker configurations. Switch on the Surround Effect and get the feeling as if you are in a movie theater. Add audio tracks of any format such as WAV...  Read more


AVS Media Player is a program developed by Online Media Technologies. Upon installation, it defines an auto-start registry entry which allows the program run on each boot for the user which installed it. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). The main program executable is avsmediaplayer.exe. The software installer includes 6 files and is usually about 18.23 MB (19,114,749 bytes). In comparison to the total number of users, most PCs are running the OS Windows 7 (SP1) as well as Windows 10. While about 37% of users of AVS Media Player come from the United States, it is also popular in Germany and United Kingdom.

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.avs4you.com
Help link: www.avs4you.com/support.aspx
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\AVS4YOU\AVSMediaPlayer\
Uninstaller: "C:\Program Files\AVS4YOU\AVSMediaPlayer\unins000.exe"
Estimated size: 18.23 MB

Program filesFiles installed by AVS Media Player

Program executable:avsmediaplayer.exe
Name:AVS Media Player
Path:C:\Program Files\avs4you\avsmediaplayer\avsmediaplayer.exe
Additional files:
  • AVSVideoConverter.exe - AVS Video Converter (AVS Video Converter Setup)
  • Registration.exe - AVS Registration (AVS Registration Setup)
  • unins000.exe - Setup/Uninstall
  • AVSInstLauncher.exe

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

Scheduled Task
  • AVSMediaPlayer.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{EC909623-4326-45EE-B48F-362E5767C944}' (runs on registration).
Startup File (User Run)
  • AVSMediaPlayer.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'AVS Media Player' and executes as C:\Program Files\AVS4YOU\AVSMediaPlayer\AVSMediaPlayer.exe.

How do I remove AVS Media Player?

You can uninstall AVS Media Player from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program AVS Media Player, click it, and then do one of the following:
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove AVS Media Player.

Win 7 (SP1) 56%
Win Vista 0%
Auto-starting? Yes
(Found in the run registry)
Uninstall it 24%
Keep it 76%

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 60.39%
Windows 10 26.67%
Windows XP 8.24%
Windows Vista 4.71%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 27.67%
Windows 7 Ultimate 18.97%
Windows 7 Professional 10.28%
Microsoft Windows XP 8.30%
Windows 8 6.32%
Windows 8.1 5.93%

Distribution by countryGeography

37.05% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 37.05%
  Germany 13.31%
  United Kingdom 5.76%
  Italy 5.04%
  Netherlands 4.68%
  Australia 3.96%
  Canada 2.88%
  France 2.52%
  Belgium 2.16%
  Japan 1.80%
  Saudi Arabia 1.80%
  Argentina 1.44%
  Russia 1.08%
  Spain 1.08%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 27.74%
Dell 18.98%
Acer 14.60%
ASUS 5.84%
Toshiba 4.38%
Sony 4.38%
Samsung 3.65%
Intel 3.65%
Lenovo 2.19%
American Megatrends 1.46%
Sahara 1.46%
Common models
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... 4.39%
Dell Studio XPS 8100 2.63%
Sony SVP1321DCXS 2.63%
ASUSTeK N53SV 1.75%
Dell Inspiron 530 1.75%
Dell Inspiron 3521 1.75%

Publisher URL: www.avsmedia.com


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