Delete Windows.0 - where's the ini file to delete

[jakgeoffsub]

Hi...new guy here.
My XP SP3 system is running slowly and I discover i have another version on wondows on - Windows.0
Got no idea how it got there.
IF I delete it will my system speed up?
How to delete.
I see other posts how to delete the ini file but I dont know how to navigate there. Did a search but ended up at a folder called pss...

Any advice about the steps needed to delete windows.0 would be appreciated. Thx

 

[LookinAround]

Wow. I had never seen/heard of a "Windows.0" file before and first guessed it was something other then a Windows install (and usually one installs different Windows installs into different disk partitons.)

But i just checked and look here. (fyi.. i'd strongly advise you backup all your stuff first just in case anything goes wrong during the uninstall attempt

 

[jakgeoffsub]

Thx for the reply.
Firstly I cloned C drive.

Then...
Had a go at removal but hit a snag -
when deleting Windows.0, a message comes up saying cant remove Flash10.ocx so I rebooted into Safe Mode.
Tried again, same message - went to Control Panel\Add Remove and deleted all Flash apps, retried - same problem. Back to Normal Boot Up - made a back up of the registry then did a cleanup of the registry. Tried again - no go. Searched for Flash10.ocx - it's not there, so searched for *.ocx and low and behold is lid'le 'ol flash10 as sculking at WINDOWS.0\system32\Macromed\Flash....nothing in Windows [the normal boot version] so being the malicious type I am I tried to squished it - delete some call it but it will not delete. I'm sending this in then rebooting to Safe Mode to try to delete it there again.

 

[LookinAround]

Checkout this thread. Looks like others may have faced and fixed similar ocx file problem (hope info in that thread might help)