Recover MS Outlook Lost PST Password

MS Outlook is one of the most popular applications, used to receive and send Personal, confidential and business important mails, PST is the single file that centrally stores all email messages, contacts, notes, calendar and Journals entries etc. So it becomes very important to access the data. Outlook Password allows you to recover password which MS Outlook Personal Storage (PST) file is protected with. Outlook Password can also recover local account information. There are several situations , when your Microsoft Outlook 97 - Microsoft Outlook 2002 and Microsoft Outlook 2003 PST password may be lost or don’t remember, In this case you cannot access your email account and other resources. To handle such a critical condition the user needs to use efficient Outlook PST Repair software can effectively repair and restore the PST data. This is the time when Outlook Password Recovery is required. Also due to a drawback of PST upgrading utility - pst19upg.exe, it is also possible to remove PST password in such cases.

Recover Lost PST Password :

Storing technique for PST password allows password recovery using special applications. Microsoft Outlook uses 32-bit hash value to store the password that can be automatically generated using CRC32 (Cyclic Redundancy Check32) algorithm. Thus any value that can match the corresponding CRC value can be used to open the locked PST. Commercial PST Password Recovery programs give you matching set of new passwords (may be original or may not be original). The program is universal and does not depend on the version of Outlook. Thus we need not decode it and carry out the complex procedure that is complex. These Outlook Password Recovery programs give interactive interface and are safe due to their read-only nature.

Removing PST Password :

To make Personal Storage Table (PST) compatible with MS Outlook new versions, Microsoft gives a application called pst19upg.exe. The technique needs about three times free space the size of the original PST. The file should be first backed up and than scanned using scanpst.exe. Then pst19upg.exe can be used on file through command prompt as:

“C:\My Documents\pst19upg.exe” -x outlook.pst.

Note: pst19upg.exe full path may vary

A copy of PST is created but with extension .psx, then rename the original PST and use “C:\My Documents\pst19upg.exe”-i filename.psx to get the free PST password. We can scan and open and use in Outlook. The utility has two basic limitations: It doesn’t support Unicode format of Outlook 2003 and 2007 and secondly, it may fail in several cases.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is high end PST Password Recover Software. The software features a simple clean interface, reliable and retrieves your PST password in simple and quick manner.Outlook Password Recovery application gives a set of new passwords to access PST. The application can also repair PST and split a large PST file into smaller ones. Stellar Outlook Password Recovery Software is ready to help you right now.