An Outlook PST file can be password protected i.e. you can set a password without which the PST file cannot be opened. At times, you forget or lose this password, which ultimately necessitates you to look for Password Recovery solutions. However, you can try to remove it by using Microsoft provided utility called PST19UPG.EXE. It is originally a tool that upgrades the PST file. But as one of its side effects, the tool can strip off the password. In case the tool too fails, third-party applications remain the only solution to recover.PST19UPG is a command line utility that first converts the file to a .psx file. To do so, you need to run commands like PST19UPG -x filename.pst and PST19UPG -i filename.ps. You can encounter the below error message when running these commands through command prompt:

“‘PST19UPG’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file”

Cause

The above error can result if you use characters, like & ( ) ^ ; | , or in the file name- PST19UPG and try to run it through command prompt. Though File Manager allows the use of these characters for naming files, but when you run those files through command prompt, you can receive errors, such as above.

Solution

To distinguish the filename, you can put quotation marks around it when running the command. Alternatively, you can use ‘^’ before the character used in the filename and try to run the command. If any of these tricks works, you can successfully remove the lost PST password and access the file contents.

PST19UPG.EXE gives no surety of removing the PST password. If this cannot, you should look for better alternatives of finding the lost password.

There are different PST Password Recovery solutions available that can recover a lost PST password. Such software offer you one-hit solution whenever you lose or forget password for .pst file. Password Recovery tools for PST provide you interactive design and can be easily used even with no prior technical skills.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Password Recovery is a comprehensive key to recover lost or forgotten PST passwords. It is an advanced PST Password Recovery utility that supports Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. The software provides you impressive list of features together with self-descriptive interface. The software is competent to recover passwords that contain special characters.

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