MS Outlook"s Scanpst Tool
Microsoft Inc.
is an IT company that provides IT solutions to all of us.
One of its IT wing creates advanced and rich featured operating systems.
It also creates many applications that benefit many users.
MS Outlook is one of such kind of applications that is used by many users to manage and co-ordinate their personal and office tasks.
MS Outlook is very rich featured application that is used to maintain e-mails, appointments, contacts, dates, tasks, notes and journals.
MS Outlook uses PST file format to store all the data.
PST file is very heavy file not in terms of weight rather in terms of volume of data that it contains.
So it is very important file in your computer.
As you know PST files are very prone to corruption and damage.
This damage mainly occurs due to virus attacks, OS corruption, file system corruption, application corruption and also due to accidental deletion.
Since this file contains lots of valuable information its corruption or damage may cause huge loss for the users.
To overcome from the situation of corruption Microsoft has devised a tool called Scanpst.
exe.
This is an (.
exe) file and generally comes with MS Office suite.
It's automatically installed in your system when you install MS Office.
You will find this file in (\Program Files-Common Files-System-Mapi-1033).
If you couldn't find it here then download Scanpst.
exe from Microsoft's site directly.
Working with Scanpst.
exe is very easy and simple.
After finding this file you just have to show the path of your PST file and click START button.
It will automatically search all the PST and OST files and scans it with its powerful algorithm to find the corruption.
After detecting the corruption it will repair the file and in some extreme cases recovers all the files and folders and makes it available and accessible for you.
But there is a problem with this tool and the problem is that it is effective only for the minor corruptions.
After using Scanpst.
exe if your problem persists, then you have to use any third party software to retrieve your files and folders.
is an IT company that provides IT solutions to all of us.
One of its IT wing creates advanced and rich featured operating systems.
It also creates many applications that benefit many users.
MS Outlook is one of such kind of applications that is used by many users to manage and co-ordinate their personal and office tasks.
MS Outlook is very rich featured application that is used to maintain e-mails, appointments, contacts, dates, tasks, notes and journals.
MS Outlook uses PST file format to store all the data.
PST file is very heavy file not in terms of weight rather in terms of volume of data that it contains.
So it is very important file in your computer.
As you know PST files are very prone to corruption and damage.
This damage mainly occurs due to virus attacks, OS corruption, file system corruption, application corruption and also due to accidental deletion.
Since this file contains lots of valuable information its corruption or damage may cause huge loss for the users.
To overcome from the situation of corruption Microsoft has devised a tool called Scanpst.
exe.
This is an (.
exe) file and generally comes with MS Office suite.
It's automatically installed in your system when you install MS Office.
You will find this file in (\Program Files-Common Files-System-Mapi-1033).
If you couldn't find it here then download Scanpst.
exe from Microsoft's site directly.
Working with Scanpst.
exe is very easy and simple.
After finding this file you just have to show the path of your PST file and click START button.
It will automatically search all the PST and OST files and scans it with its powerful algorithm to find the corruption.
After detecting the corruption it will repair the file and in some extreme cases recovers all the files and folders and makes it available and accessible for you.
But there is a problem with this tool and the problem is that it is effective only for the minor corruptions.
After using Scanpst.
exe if your problem persists, then you have to use any third party software to retrieve your files and folders.
