If your windows XP fails to install drivers for USB devices, complaining that “The services database is locked”, you probably have a service somewhere that can not start. Check out your services, sort them by status and if there is one saying ‘starting’ try to disable it. It did help me, hopefully it will help someone else too
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Sorry, I tried this and noted no ‘Starting’ services, so I’ve probably got another problem that hasn’t revealed itself as yet.
Thanks anyway . . .
TomJ
Win X
Win XP SP III