Lost Password of an Infrequently Used PST

Your IT managers often suggest you to compose a hard-to-guess password to eliminate the security threats. But in large organizations, where users have multitude of passwords for different accounts, applications, systems, and files, it is sometimes hard for most of the people to remember these passwords. With these constraints, a Microsoft Outlook user can also forget the password of one of the PST files. Now-a-days lost or forgotten PST Password doesn't appear to be a big problem due to the availability of PST Password Recovery utilities.

Forgetting a PST Password is one of the top human factors that can lead to the inaccessibility of e-mails. For better understanding, consider the case of an infrequently used PST file. Let's say, you create a PST file with MS Outlook and enforce password-protection to prevent the unauthorized intrusion. You do not access this file for long. But then one day, you come to a situation of reading few critical e-mails from this password-protected PST file. So, when you try to remember the file password, you realize that you have forgotten it. Consequently, you have no access to the e-mails of this PST file.

To prevent such problems from occurring, users generally apply one of the below mentioned techniques:

(1) Use a simple and easy-to-remember password.

(2) Use same password again and again.

(3) Note down the password on some physical location, a file, or notepad. Though doing so can cause unnecessary security risks.

(4) Seek assistance from organization's IT department to keep a record of passwords.

When you Recover PST Password of an Outlook PST, two viable options are to strip off the password using pst19upg.exe utility and to recover it using a password recovery utility for PST file. Though using pst19upg.exe is a good way, it is not a trustworthy tool to remove the PST file password. This is because it can even corrupt your file. The third-party tools can recover Lost PST Password, no matter what is the length and complexity of lost or forgotten PST file password. Additionally, these software have an interactive design that make them easily-operable.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Password Recovery is a high-end tool that can recover lost or forgotten PST file password and allows restoring it to a word-processor or text-editor file. Supporting MS Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000, this PST Password Recovery utility generates a number (precisely six) of PST-usable passwords, each of which can be used to open a password-protected PST file.

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