Will not open a catalog

When trying to open Lightroom, I get the following message "The lightroom catalog 2011 Lightroom-2-2 can't opened because another application already has it opened" in the past I would simply restart computer and this would handle issue. This does not work now.
Tried creating a new catalog, this new catalog Lightroom-2-3.ircat did not bring in all of the folders or images.
Need help please
Larry

Larry, have a look in the troublesome catalogs folder and if there is a file inside ending in .lock delete if (with Lightroom closed).

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