Lost the Last Changed PST File Password

Changing your account or file password frequently is considered as one of the good practices for password protection. Ideally, the longer you use a password, there are more chances that someone else might manage to crack your password. The same rule applies to an Outlook PST file. Thus, for data security reasons, many of Outlook users often change their file password. But this practice can turn to be irrelevant if you lose or forget this password. In such an environment when you change your PST file password very frequently, possibilities are that you might forget the password and thus, lose the accessibility to all your e-mails. If this is the case with you, you will need a PST Password Recovery tool to recover it.

After defining how a PST Password gets lost, let's discuss the effect of such problems. For this, let's consider a scenario wherein you as an Outlook user keep hundreds of confidential e-mails in your Outlook. All these e-mails are stored in your default PST file. Since the e-mails are confidential and cannot be disclosed to anyone, and you use a computer that is used by other people also, you enforce password protection on this file and decide to change the file password each week or month. However, one day, you realize that you cannot recall the password that you changed last week or month. As a result, the e-mails that are stored in this file are no longer accessible.

Such situations can be tackled in two ways, mentioned below:

(1) Backup your PST file, download pst19upg.exe utility, and use the utility to strip off the file password. This trick works only in limited cases. So, if this doesn't work for you, consider implementing the next solution.

(2) Use a third-party utility to Recover PST Password. These applications are specifically built to scan a password-protected PST file and ensure PST Password Recovery for all types of PST files. The software incorporate high-end scanning algorithms and a user-friendly design that can help you operate it easily. Such utilities usually give a number of password, which you can use to open the file.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Password Recovery is a comprehensive utility designed to recover lost/forgotten PST file password. The tool can Recover PST Password and allow you to save them (precisely six) in a text-editor or word-processor. It supports MS Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000.