You can enforce password protection for your Outlook Personal Folders file (.pst). When you use POP3 or HTTP account, all your emails are delivered to your locally stored PST file and thus, are prone to accidental intrusion. So, making your PST password-protected can save your data. But if you forget or lose your PST password, this can bring data inaccessibility issues. You cannot open the file unless you provide a correct password. To recover such a password, there are various Outlook Pst Password Recovery solutions available.For example, consider a situation when you record all email, system, website and other daily used passwords in a notebook or a computer file. It also contains your PST password that you use to access all important emails stored in the file. You lose the notebook or inadvertently delete the password file. As a result, you cannot remember the PST password. Since PST is password protected, when you try to open the file, it prompts you to enter the password. But because of unavailability of correct PST password, you fail to open it and your data remains inaccessible.
Solution
You can deal with such situations in two ways:
· You can use Microsoft pst19upg.exe utility to remove the PST password. It is actually a utility used to upgrade older version PST file to the later version. But as a side-effect of upgrade operation, it removes the password of older version PST file. Before using the tool, it is suggested to backup the file as it might cause damages to the original file and make sure that you have free space of almost three times of PST size. Download the tool and run it through command prompt. It will first convert the file to .psx file and later to upgraded and password-free .pst file.
· To recover the lost PST password, you should better use third-party PST Password Recovery solutions. pst19upg.exe doesn’t work in each case of lost password. However, Outlook Password Recovery tools are sure solutions to recover them. These are graphically rich applications incorporated with advanced procedures to recover a lost or forgotten PST password.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook Password Recovery v1.1 is an efficient and reliable solution to recover lost PST passwords. The tool supports complete PST Password Recovery for files created with Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It is a comprehensive solution that provides you multiple passwords, using either of which you can gain access to your locked PST.
