How to Unlock Password Protected PST file - Possible Methods

Outlook password recovery is all you need if you’ve lost PST file password. Without a correct password, you just can’t access or open your Outlook data file. In such situation, you have two options: whether you can remove PST file password manually to unlock PST file, or you can try professional PST Password Recovery software to unlock PST password. In this blog, you’ll find the manual solution as well as a professional way to unlock PST file.

Computer data security is one of the most critical issues for most organizations and even for the individuals. These computer files contain very crucial information about an organization or an individual. But if it falls into the wrong hands, it becomes very dangerous and a frustrating situation for them. In such a critical situation, you must protect your computer files by applying passwords to them. Password protection provides security to your computer data and files against any unauthorized or misuse or theft.

Have you lost PST file password?

Have you ever lost PST file password? Isn’t it frustrating? You just can’t open your PST file without entering the correct password and you can’t send email messages anymore. If you’re trying to open a password protected PST file but you don’t have the correct password, then you’ll receive an error message saying

To open the password protected PST file, you must enter the correct password. If you have set the password on your PST file but now you have forgotten or lost it, then you must try to remember the password. And one thing you better make sure that your CAPS LOCK key is not open while entering the password. Microsoft Outlook is not able to retrieve any lost or forgotten password of PST file. Some computer experts say you can’t do anything if you’ve forgotten or lost PST file password. Therefore, they always recommend writing passwords in a diary or a notepad.

For example

You have a very important PST file. You set a password for it and protect the file. Also, you write the same password in your personal diary or computer notepad. After a couple of months, you forget the password. But there’s no need to worry as the password is written in your diary. You can recover the password from your diary and open your PST file. But if you have not written the password anywhere or you have lost the diary or the notepad file in which the passwords were written, has been deleted, then it’ll become very difficult for you to restore PST password.

How to Perform PST Password Recovery?

In such critical situation, you can use a professional PST password recovery application. Though there’s a free utility called "pst19upg.exe" from Microsoft to remove the password from PST file, it only works with ANSI PST files of older versions of MS Outlook. It doesn’t remove PST password of a Unicode file or sometimes it may not work. In such a situation, you must check PST password recovery software which supports both ANSI and Unicode PST files

Professional PST Password Recovery Solution

If the above solution doesn’t work due to any reason, or you have a Unicode PST file, then you should try a professional PST password recovery solution. Shoviv Software offers an advanced solution named as Shoviv Outlook Password Recovery tool, to unlock PST password of Outlook data files. It supports all popular versions of MS Outlook and recovers password of both ANSI and Unicode PST files. To know more about this software, please visit "Shoviv Software" website and download the free demo version of this software.

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