Set a password for protecting your Outlook email profile

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.

1. On the File menu, click Data File Management to open the Account Settings dialog box.

2. 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.

3. Click the Change password button.

4. In the New password box, type your new password. The password can be up to 15 characters long and case-sensitive.

5. In the Verify password box, type your new password again.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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