How to uninstall PotPlayer on Windows

PotPlayer keeps most of its settings in the registry under HKCU\Software\DAUM, and its uninstaller deleted those settings keys in this test. If you want your skins, shortcuts, playback positions and preferences after a reinstall, export that key with Registry Editor before you uninstall. Your media files are never touched. This guide covers PotPlayer (64-bit) installed machine-wide with the vendor's ARM64 installer from the Daum.PotPlayer winget manifest; it shows in Settings as PotPlayer-64 bit.

Quit PotPlayer first

Close every PotPlayer window. The player runs as a single PotPlayerMini64.exe process; check Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) that it is gone before you uninstall. PotPlayer added no startup item in this test.

Back up your settings

Open Registry Editor, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DAUM, right-click PotPlayerMini64 and choose Export to save it as a .reg file. Double-clicking that file after a reinstall brings the settings back.

Remove the app with its own uninstaller

Go to Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find PotPlayer-64 bit, and choose Uninstall, or run:

winget uninstall --id Daum.PotPlayer

The uninstaller asks for administrator access, since PotPlayer was installed for all users.

Where the data lives

Location	What it holds	What to do
`Program Files\DAUM\PotPlayer`	Program files	The uninstaller removes it
`Program Files\DAUM`	Vendor folder, empty once PotPlayer is gone	Safe to remove if it is empty
`HKCU\Software\DAUM\PotPlayerMini64`	Player settings	The uninstaller removed it in this test; export it first if you want it back
`HKCU\Software\DAUM`	Two values the installer writes, an install date and an ID	Safe to remove once PotPlayer is gone, unless another DAUM app is installed
`%APPDATA%\PotPlayerMini64`	A small data folder the player writes	Look inside and back it up if you changed where PotPlayer saves settings; otherwise remove it
`%APPDATA%\Daum\PotPlayer`	An empty log folder	Safe to remove
Public Start Menu folder `PotPlayer` and the public desktop shortcut	Shortcuts for all users	The uninstaller removes them

The file type keys PotPlayer registered for all users, such as .ass or .mpls under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes, stay behind without a program to open them. Windows ignores them; leave them alone.

Check the result

Run these read-only commands after the uninstall finishes:

Get-Process PotPlayerMini64 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
winget list --id Daum.PotPlayer
Test-Path "$env:ProgramFiles\DAUM\PotPlayer"
Test-Path "$env:ProgramFiles\DAUM"
Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\Daum"
Test-Path "HKCU:\Software\DAUM"

No output from Get-Process only means this query observed no matching process; a suppressed error leaves the running state unknown.
A completed winget list query with no match means the package record is gone; a matching row means the uninstall did not finish.
Test-Path on DAUM\PotPlayer returning False means the program folder is gone.
Test-Path "$env:ProgramFiles\DAUM" returning True means the empty vendor folder is still there.
Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\Daum" and Test-Path "HKCU:\Software\DAUM" returning True mean the empty log folder and the installer's two values are still there; remove them yourself if no other DAUM app uses them.

What Mole lists

For PotPlayer installed machine-wide with the vendor's installer:

The program folder goes with the app row. The public Start Menu folder and the public desktop shortcut are selected by default.
%APPDATA%\PotPlayerMini64 is listed but not selected.
Program Files\DAUM, %APPDATA%\Daum\PotPlayer and HKCU\Software\DAUM are not listed; check them and remove them yourself after the uninstall.
File type keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE are never listed.

What this test covered

Tested on 2026-09-28 with PotPlayer 26.08.19.0, the ARM64 build, installed machine-wide from the vendor's installer in the winget manifest. Its NSIS uninstaller ran silently, and every listed row was ticked and removed in this test. No media was opened. Not verified: saved playlists, settings saved to a file instead of the registry, or the x64 build.