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Remove Winshow Adware
About Winshow
Winshow is an adware implemented as a browser helper object for Internet Explorer. When Winshow finds a selected word or phrase in a web page that IE is displaying, it may open a popup advertisement related to that term. Ads are served by 00hq.com and 8ad.com. It may also trigger Windows XP error reporting.
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How to Remove Winshow?
You can download the uninstaller program from its controlling site at http://00hq.com/uninstall.exe
To manually remove it, you need:
- Open a DOS command prompt window (from Start->Programs->Accessories), and enter the following commands:
cd "%WinDir%\System"
regsvr32 /u "..\winshow.dll"
- Restart the computer.
- Delete the files winshow.dll, winshow.cfg and dict.dat from the Windows folder.
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