so i think i have a pretty simple task at hand here, but my knowledge is limited at times

i had a virus on my work computer that killed my windows explorer, so not knowing how to restore the corrupted files, i reinstalled windows on the same partition, creating 2 "Windows" files, one that works (and i have been using for about 2 months) and one that is virus free but messed up still. i know this was a backwards way of doing it and probably much more complicated then it needed to be but i did what i could right.

so now i want to delete the old Windows that doesn't work properly but it won't let me. my guess is that Windows is programed to not allow you to delete the Windows file, and for good reason, but i only want the good one. so the files are named "Windows" and "Windows(0)", the later being the good one. a thought i had was that what if i renamed the old one windows(12) or something and then renamed the good one just "Windows". i know that seems kinda simple and doesn't make total sense but i thought it was worth a try. my other thought was to go into Safe Mode and try it there.

any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
thank you
Wes