I've never had problems with "locked" drivers or programs before, if there was a problem it has always been possible to reinstall the driver or program completely and just start over again.....Until I got Windows XP home edition!! I've only used XP for a few months (haven't really got any W2K experience either) and have already, on several occasions had a program or driver that got stuck in the system, i.e. I couldn't uninstall via the add/remove programs, or with the driver/programs own uninstaller, or fix it by reinstalling on top of it, and the corrupted/incompatible install was blocking the correct install!

So my question is: what do an experienced, hardcore, highleveled tech-guy do in this situation???? (Other than reinstall, or use last known...., or restore system)
There must be some sort of standard procedure for these problems... or what!??