GPG is waiting for a lock held by a process that does not exist

[Robert J. Hansen]

> So how do I install a non-Cygwin, native-Windows, fully-supported
> version of Gnu-GPG?

https://gnupg.org/download/index.html

Scroll down to "GnuPG Binary Releases" and you'll find prebuilt binaries 
for Windows, macOS, Debian, Android, VMS, RISC OS, and various Red Hat 
derivatives.
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