Outlook Password Recovery

How to recover data stored in the protected .PST file

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:03:07 +0000

If you are a regular Outlook user then you must protect the .pst file with a stringent password. You need to apply password on .pst file so that nobody can access your emails, notes, drafts, calendar items, etc. without specifying the password. If you have saved crucial information as draft then you must apply password on .pst file. Security should not be taken slackly. However, when you apply password then you should not forget it. Once you forget the password, you cannot access your emails, contacts, notes, calendar, etc. In that situation, you become a victim of lost password.

At that time, you need Outlook Password Recovery tool to recover the data stored in the password protected .pst file. But, the problem is to find the reliable Outlook Password Recovery software. It is not so easy to find a reliable solution, which can support almost every version of .pst file. Execute the following steps to find a reliable Outlook PST Password Recovery tool using Google:

Start your computer, which is Internet enabled.
Launch the Web browser and open Google.com.
Type Outlook Password Recovery in the search bar and click the Search button. You will get a list of available password recovery tools.
Now, click some of the websites providing password recovery tools and read out the features.

After reading the features, select the one that you think is the best. After that download the free trial version of the software and see if the tool can recover the password of the .pst file. Some of the tools can recover simple password but get failed when it comes to recover the stringent password.

Kernel for Outlook 2007 Password Recovery is an adaptable tool for recovering the password of .pst file. The tool can even recover the stringent passwords in just few seconds. The software supports MS Outlook 2003, Outlook XP, Outlook 2000, Outlook 98, and Outlook 97.

Outlook password recovery when the password is changed

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:13:09 +0000

Protecting your Outlook PST file with password protection is a common phenomenon and it is done to resist intrusion of undesirable sources. MS Outlook is also integrated with options to change the password for the desired PST file. However password loss or change without your knowledge might just abandon you from all of your important email messages.

Considering a realistic situation, suppose the employees of an organization utilize MS Outlook as their primary email client and so all of their email data is stored in their respective PST files. What if someone resigns from the job due to some illegitimate reasons and the company wants to check his/her email client to analyze the email communication. Administrators won’t be able to access the email account, until they have user’s Outlook PST file password. Thus, you require an Outlook password recovery tool to help you fetch the Outlook password so that you can access the pst file data. However, to perform Outlook password recovery, here are some of the possible solutions available:

There is a free outlook password recovery utility available online named ‘pst19upg.exe’ to remove the password. This tool is basically used for upgrading pst file, however, it is successful in removing the password from an encrypted PST file. If you try it, we suggest you to create a backup of the original PST file first, so that even if the tool corrupts your file, you can get your important data back.
If the above mentioned utility doesn’t works, use a third party Outlook password recovery tool that can give you professional support in recovery of Outlook password. Most of these utilities are available with free demo of the applications, so that you can access and analyze the capabilities of the software.

Use Kernel for Outlook password recovery tool which is safe and robust utility devised especially to recover lost Outlook PST passwords. It can retrieve lost or forgotten passwords from PST files created using Microsoft Outlook 2003/XP/2000/98/97 on windows platform.

Set a password for protecting your Outlook email profile

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:11:47 +0000

It’s a good habit of putting a password rule for protecting Outlook email profile from intruders who uses the same computer. Protecting your personal Outlook data, such as messages, calendar items, etc., with a password also helps in preventing accidental viewing by other people.

We know that email items that we create and receive in Outlook are stored in PST files in the hard disk. Its default location is \Users\your username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook. Each person who uses the same computer can have their e-mail delivered to a separate personal folder, each of which can have a password set.

Follow the given below steps to set password for your Outlook profile.

On the File menu, click Data File Management to open the Account Settings dialog box.
On the Data Files tab, click the Personal Folders file .PST for which you want to create a password, and then click Settings to open the Personal Folders dialog box.
Click the Change password button.
In the New password box, type your new password. The password can be up to 15 characters long and case-sensitive.
In the Verify password box, type your new password again.
If you share a computer with others, don’t select the Save this password in your password list check box. Anyone with access to the computer could potentially open your .pst file.
Click OK twice, and then click Close.

In case you forget the Outlook password and need to access the PST file, what would be your course of action then? You’ll try hard to remember the password but still no avail. Well at that time using Kernel for Outlook password recovery software proves to be elixir. It retrieves lost or forgotten password instantly and unprotect the PST file.