Passwords are often stored at a location that are easily accessible to the owner. In today’s world, where cell-phones are common to all, storing the passwords of important file in their memory is a common practice. But serious disasters can occur if you lose these passwords as a post-crash consequence of your cell-phone. If the lost, yet important, password(s) is not saved at any other location, you may fall under data loss conditions too. You may lose worth of e-mails and other items if the lost password is of an Outlook PST. In such cases, it becomes important that you restore the e-mails from a previous backup or use a Password Recovery utility built specifically for Microsoft Outlook.To exemplify such problems of password loss, suppose you create an Outlook PST and set a unique password. In order to access it easily, you save this password in a draft message or as a number in your cell-phone. The cell-phone crashes or the associated item gets accidentally deleted from the phone memory. The next time, when you try to open your Outlook PST, you cannot remember the password and the file remain unopened and inaccessibile.
Cause
Microsoft Outlook doesn’t allow to open the password-protected PST until you provide the defined password for it.
Solution
To regain access to lost e-mails and password-protected PST, you can try these suggestions:
Check if the password is stored to some other location too. If it is, you can access it and use the password to open the file.
You can simply delete the file in effect if a valid and problem-free backup is present. You can import the messages and use them in Outlook.
If none of the above solutions is relevant, you should use a PST Password Recovery tool to analyze and recover the lost PST password.
Password Recovery tools for MS Outlook are specific utilities that recover lost or forgotten PST passwords (though not original) and allow you to access the password-protected PST. These software feature self-explaining steps that provide easy recovery of lost passwords.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook Password Recovery is an advanced, yet safe, PST Password Recovery utility designed to recover lost or forgotten passwords of Outlook PST. The tool supports Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. It is a simple tool that gives you multiple (precisely six) PST-usable passwords. The tool is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.
