Uninstall

Deactivate your license first

If you have a paid license, deactivate it inside VFxM (Settings → Deactivate) before uninstalling. This frees your activation seat so you can reactivate on another machine later. If you skip this, you will need to contact support to free the seat manually.

Uninstalling no longer disturbs your toolbar

Fixed in 1.2.2. The uninstaller used to delete its own line from REAPER’s toolbar file. REAPER stops reading that file at the first missing position, so anyone who had moved the Virtue button towards the front of their toolbar lost everything after it — and reinstalling appended past the gap, so it never came back. The slot is now blanked rather than removed, leaving one unused separator and nothing else. Your toolbar file is copied to Virtue/Backups/ before the uninstaller touches it.

Safer install and uninstall in 1.2.3

• Both stay inside your own home folder. The path used to be cut at the first space, so “/Users/John Smith” became “/Users/John”.
• Uninstalling removes only VFxM’s own toolbar buttons, matched by their exact action ids; other products’ buttons are left alone.
• Neither installing nor uninstalling touches the toolbar while REAPER is running.

macOS

The installer disk image includes an uninstaller — this is the recommended path.

1. Open the VFxM disk image (the .dmg you installed from) again, or download it again.
2. Double-click Uninstall Virtue.app.
3. It removes the extension file and the Capture Helper, the small app that takes your thumbnails (~/Library/Application Support/Virtue/VFxM Capture Helper.app). Your data in ~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Virtue/ is preserved by default.

Screen Recording entry stays

macOS keeps the Capture Helper’s entry in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording after the app is gone. I can’t remove it for you; switch it off or remove it there if you want it gone.

Manual removal

Remove just the extension:

rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/REAPER/UserPlugins/reaper_virtue.dylib

Remove the Capture Helper:

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Virtue/VFxM\ Capture\ Helper.app

To also remove all your data (favourites, notes, thumbnails, settings):

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/REAPER/Virtue/

Windows

1. Open Settings → Apps → Installed apps. Search for Virtue FX Manager — the entry is called Virtue FX Manager version 1.2.5, from the publisher Virtue — and click Uninstall.
2. Or, without opening Settings: Start menu → Virtue FX Manager → Uninstall Virtue FX Manager.
3. Or run the Virtue FX Manager installer again: when it finds VFxM already installed it asks Update to version 1.2.5, Uninstall or Cancel. Uninstall runs the same uninstaller as the other two ways.
4. The uninstaller removes reaper_virtue.dll from %APPDATA%\REAPER\UserPlugins\ and the Capture Helper, the small program that takes your thumbnails, from %LOCALAPPDATA%\Virtue\capture\. Your data in %APPDATA%\REAPER\Virtue\ is preserved by default.

Note

That uninstaller is a file named unins followed by a number (for example unins000.exe or unins002.exe), sitting right next to reaper_virtue.dll in %APPDATA%\REAPER\UserPlugins\. If you’re browsing that folder directly rather than going through Settings → Apps, that’s the same uninstaller — double-click the highest-numbered one. Inno Setup names every uninstaller it creates this way, so it isn’t specific to Virtue FX Manager, but nothing else here tells you what to look for.

Manual removal

Remove just the extension:

del "%APPDATA%\REAPER\UserPlugins\reaper_virtue.dll"

Remove the Capture Helper:

rmdir /s /q "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Virtue\capture"

To also remove all your data:

rmdir /s /q "%APPDATA%\REAPER\Virtue"

What is preserved vs removed

Data	Standard uninstall	Manual full removal
Extension file (.dylib / .dll)	Removed	Removed
Capture Helper	Removed	Removed
Favourites	Preserved	Removed
Notes and ratings	Preserved	Removed
Thumbnails	Preserved	Removed
Settings and themes	Preserved	Removed
License activation on this machine	Preserved until deactivated	Removed
Your REAPER toolbar	Preserved — only the Virtue button is removed	Preserved, and the Virtue button stays until you remove it
Toolbar backups in Virtue/Backups/	Preserved	Removed

Deleting local files does not reset your trial

Trial periods are tracked on the licensing server, not in local files, so removing VFxM’s data folder does not start a new trial on the same machine.