diff --git a/Externals/OpenAL/lib/OpenAL32.dll b/Externals/OpenAL/lib/OpenAL32.dll
deleted file mode 100644
index a718bdc5b5..0000000000
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diff --git a/Externals/OpenAL/lib/OpenAL32.lib b/Externals/OpenAL/lib/OpenAL32.lib
deleted file mode 100644
index 88dfed146a..0000000000
Binary files a/Externals/OpenAL/lib/OpenAL32.lib and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/Source/Core/DolphinQt2/DolphinQt2.vcxproj b/Source/Core/DolphinQt2/DolphinQt2.vcxproj
index 7e2f0b44cf..7b8e1ac9a6 100644
--- a/Source/Core/DolphinQt2/DolphinQt2.vcxproj
+++ b/Source/Core/DolphinQt2/DolphinQt2.vcxproj
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemDefinitionGroup>
     <Link>
-      <AdditionalLibraryDirectories>$(ExternalsDir)ffmpeg\lib;$(ExternalsDir)OpenAL\lib;%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories)</AdditionalLibraryDirectories>
+      <AdditionalLibraryDirectories>$(ExternalsDir)ffmpeg\lib;%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories)</AdditionalLibraryDirectories>
       <AdditionalDependencies>avrt.lib;iphlpapi.lib;winmm.lib;setupapi.lib;opengl32.lib;glu32.lib;rpcrt4.lib;comctl32.lib;avcodec.lib;avformat.lib;avutil.lib;swresample.lib;swscale.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)</AdditionalDependencies>
     </Link>
     <ClCompile>
@@ -253,17 +253,14 @@
   <ItemGroup>
     <DataSysFiles Include="$(DolphinRootDir)Data\**\Sys\**\*.*" />
     <DataTxtFiles Include="$(DolphinRootDir)Data\license.txt" />
-    <ExternalDlls Include="$(ExternalsDir)OpenAL\lib\*.dll" />
     <BinaryFiles Include="$(TargetPath)" />
-    <AllInputFiles Include="@(DataSysFiles);@(DataTxtFiles);@(ExternalDlls);@(BinaryFiles)" />
+    <AllInputFiles Include="@(DataSysFiles);@(DataTxtFiles);@(BinaryFiles)" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <Target Name="AfterBuild" Inputs="@(AllInputFiles)" Outputs="@(AllInputFiles -> '$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')">
     <Message Text="Copying Data directory..." Importance="High" />
     <Copy SourceFiles="@(DataSysFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)" Condition="!Exists('$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(DataSysFiles.Extension)') OR $([System.DateTime]::Parse('%(ModifiedTime)').Ticks) &gt; $([System.IO.File]::GetLastWriteTime('$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(DataSysFiles.Extension)').Ticks)" />
     <Copy SourceFiles="@(DataTxtFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(BinaryOutputDir)" Condition="!Exists('$(BinaryOutputDir)%(Filename)%(DataTxtFiles.Extension)') OR $([System.DateTime]::Parse('%(ModifiedTime)').Ticks) &gt; $([System.IO.File]::GetLastWriteTime('$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(DataTxtFiles.Extension)').Ticks)" />
-    <Message Text="Copying External .dlls" Importance="High" />
-    <Copy SourceFiles="@(ExternalDlls)" DestinationFolder="$(BinaryOutputDir)" Condition="!Exists('$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(ExternalDlls.Extension)') OR $([System.DateTime]::Parse('%(ModifiedTime)').Ticks) &gt; $([System.IO.File]::GetLastWriteTime('$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(ExternalDlls.Extension)').Ticks)" />
     <Message Text="Copy: @(BinaryFiles) -&gt; $(BinaryOutputDir)" Importance="High" />
     <Copy SourceFiles="@(BinaryFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(BinaryOutputDir)" />
   </Target>
-</Project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</Project>
diff --git a/Source/Core/DolphinWX/DolphinWX.vcxproj b/Source/Core/DolphinWX/DolphinWX.vcxproj
index 08d8a1770c..c8ff9f30dd 100644
--- a/Source/Core/DolphinWX/DolphinWX.vcxproj
+++ b/Source/Core/DolphinWX/DolphinWX.vcxproj
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
   <PropertyGroup Label="UserMacros" />
   <ItemDefinitionGroup>
     <Link>
-      <AdditionalLibraryDirectories>$(ExternalsDir)ffmpeg\lib;$(ExternalsDir)OpenAL\lib;%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories)</AdditionalLibraryDirectories>
+      <AdditionalLibraryDirectories>$(ExternalsDir)ffmpeg\lib;%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories)</AdditionalLibraryDirectories>
       <AdditionalDependencies>avrt.lib;iphlpapi.lib;winmm.lib;setupapi.lib;opengl32.lib;glu32.lib;rpcrt4.lib;comctl32.lib;avcodec.lib;avformat.lib;avutil.lib;swresample.lib;swscale.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)</AdditionalDependencies>
     </Link>
     <ResourceCompile>
@@ -287,17 +287,14 @@
   <ItemGroup>
     <DataSysFiles Include="$(DolphinRootDir)Data\**\Sys\**\*.*" />
     <DataTxtFiles Include="$(DolphinRootDir)Data\license.txt" />
-    <ExternalDlls Include="$(ExternalsDir)OpenAL\lib\*.dll" />
     <BinaryFiles Include="$(TargetPath)" />
-    <AllInputFiles Include="@(DataSysFiles);@(DataTxtFiles);@(ExternalDlls);@(BinaryFiles)" />
+    <AllInputFiles Include="@(DataSysFiles);@(DataTxtFiles);@(BinaryFiles)" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <Target Name="AfterBuild" Inputs="@(AllInputFiles)" Outputs="@(AllInputFiles -> '$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')">
     <Message Text="Copying Data directory..." Importance="High" />
     <Copy SourceFiles="@(DataSysFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)" Condition="!Exists('$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(DataSysFiles.Extension)') OR $([System.DateTime]::Parse('%(ModifiedTime)').Ticks) &gt; $([System.IO.File]::GetLastWriteTime('$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(DataSysFiles.Extension)').Ticks)" />
     <Copy SourceFiles="@(DataTxtFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(BinaryOutputDir)" Condition="!Exists('$(BinaryOutputDir)%(Filename)%(DataTxtFiles.Extension)') OR $([System.DateTime]::Parse('%(ModifiedTime)').Ticks) &gt; $([System.IO.File]::GetLastWriteTime('$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(DataTxtFiles.Extension)').Ticks)" />
-    <Message Text="Copying External .dlls" Importance="High" />
-    <Copy SourceFiles="@(ExternalDlls)" DestinationFolder="$(BinaryOutputDir)" Condition="!Exists('$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(ExternalDlls.Extension)') OR $([System.DateTime]::Parse('%(ModifiedTime)').Ticks) &gt; $([System.IO.File]::GetLastWriteTime('$(BinaryOutputDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(ExternalDlls.Extension)').Ticks)" />
     <Message Text="Copy: @(BinaryFiles) -&gt; $(BinaryOutputDir)" Importance="High" />
     <Copy SourceFiles="@(BinaryFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(BinaryOutputDir)" />
   </Target>
-</Project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</Project>
diff --git a/Source/UnitTests/UnitTests.vcxproj b/Source/UnitTests/UnitTests.vcxproj
index 6f527c3bda..de91cec388 100644
--- a/Source/UnitTests/UnitTests.vcxproj
+++ b/Source/UnitTests/UnitTests.vcxproj
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
         The following libs are needed since we pull in pretty much the entire
         dolphin codebase.
         -->
-      <AdditionalLibraryDirectories>$(ExternalsDir)OpenAL\lib;$(ExternalsDir)ffmpeg\lib;%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories)</AdditionalLibraryDirectories>
+      <AdditionalLibraryDirectories>$(ExternalsDir)ffmpeg\lib;%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories)</AdditionalLibraryDirectories>
       <AdditionalDependencies>avrt.lib;iphlpapi.lib;winmm.lib;setupapi.lib;opengl32.lib;glu32.lib;rpcrt4.lib;comctl32.lib;avcodec.lib;avformat.lib;avutil.lib;swresample.lib;swscale.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)</AdditionalDependencies>
       <SubSystem>Console</SubSystem>
     </Link>
@@ -88,27 +88,8 @@
   <Import Project="$(VCTargetsPath)\Microsoft.Cpp.targets" />
   <ImportGroup Label="ExtensionTargets">
   </ImportGroup>
-  <!--
-    This project is always built, but the outputs are conditionally executed.
-    The tests will either be run by VS' test runner (requires a plugin to adapt
-    to gtest - developers will mostly use this method), or via msbuild (the
-    buildbot does it this way). The gtest adapter has the restriction that it
-    can only scan for tests on binaries it knows about (e.g. from projects' OutDir),
-    and it doesn't allow changing the working directory for running the tests.
-    Essentially this requires all runtime dependencies to be findable from the
-    context of the tests running with working directory set to OutDir. So...
-    that was the long-winded explanation of why we copy external things to the
-    OutDir :)
-    -->
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <ExternalDlls Include="$(ExternalsDir)OpenAL\lib\*.dll" />
-  </ItemGroup>
-  <!--Either method of running requires the runtime deps to be copied to pwd-->
-  <Target Name="CopyDeps" AfterTargets="AfterBuild" Inputs="@(ExternalDlls)" Outputs="@(ExternalDlls -> '$(OutDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')">
-    <Copy SourceFiles="@(ExternalDlls)" DestinationFolder="$(OutDir)" Condition="!Exists('$(OutDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(ExternalDlls.Extension)') OR $([System.DateTime]::Parse('%(ModifiedTime)').Ticks) &gt; $([System.IO.File]::GetLastWriteTime('$(OutDir)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(ExternalDlls.Extension)').Ticks)" />
-  </Target>
   <Target Name="ExecUnitTests" AfterTargets="AfterBuild;CopyDeps" Condition="'$(RunUnitTests)'=='true'">
     <!--This is only executed via msbuild, VS test runner automatically does this-->
     <Exec Command="$(TargetPath)" />
   </Target>
-</Project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</Project>