Error Message in access says someone uses the database,and no one does

[Husameddin]

Whenever I want to update my database I can’t save any changes to it and I got this message "you don’t have exclusive access to the data base at this time".or you can't save. anther user has the file open and i must have exclusive access to the file
Anther icon appears in the desktop with a lock in it has the same name as the data base. I am using office xp and some times office 97 but I convert my data base whenever I use different version. I used some VBA codes in my database and I don’t know if that is the problem.
Please help me

 

[OpalBiz]

Have you check to see if there has been an odbc (Open Database Connection) link created to the database from another file? If the file resides on your local hard drive, you can restart your machine and sever all links to the file.

John