When you are setting password on the Outlook data file, you are prompted to keep the password in a safe place, because Microsoft can't help you to recover pst file lost or forgotten password.
So, before forgetting the password, write it down in a notepad. Or reset it to a new password that is hard for others to guess, but easy for you to remember.
If you are using Outlook, your email, calendar, contacts and task information are stored in a *.pst file. To prevent others from viewing your information on Outlook, you may choose to set a password to the pst file.
How to reset Outlook data file password?
MS Outlook is recommended due to its simple usage and easy interface. The features available in this desktop email client are innovative and gives a list of privileges to their users apart from sending or receiving emails. One of the privilege known as password protection is also from the list of that features that allow an Outlook user to secure their PST file from unwanted access.
To recover your Outlook data file forgotten password
1. First, need to download an Outlook password recovery tool.
2. Select Outlook pst file.
3. Select attack type and adjust attack settings.
Securing Outlook emails is a good practice, but fails when a user forgot the password which he had applied to the PST file in order to make it secure or private. For example, your network administrator might have input a password on your data file while configuring an account for you. And now when you are trying to access the same data file, Outlook is prompting a pop-up to input password which network admin has defined earlier.
Finally, I had to resort to using one of those PST password recovery programs to get access to the file. It actually didn’t give me the exact password that I originally used, but it gave me another password that allowed me to unlock the file.
In this article, I’ll write about several tools you can use to recover a PST password. Some of the programs are free, which I mention first and the rest are all paid. Always try the free options first before making any kind of purchase.
Free PST Recovery Tools
Password – This free tool from Microsoft is the safest and easiest to use, but it only officially works on Outlook 97 to Outlook 2007. It had been updated to find the PST file for Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016, but it’s not guaranteed to work.
It’s one of the easiest programs because all you literally have to do is run the program and that’s it. You don’t even have to install anything. The program will automatically find the PST files if you have Outlook installed and give you the up to three possible passwords that should work for the file. You can also load a PST file manually if you like by dragging and dropping it onto the program window.
Those are really the only two safe and clean tools that I could find that were free. If you have a newer version of Office installed, you’ll most likely have to use one of the paid programs below. It’s worth noting that most of the paid programs have free trials that can at least tell you whether or not the password can be recovered. In some cases, it’ll give you a character or two of the password instead of the whole password. This way you at least know if you spend the money, you’ll be able to access your PST file.
This method applies to Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013, and Outlook 2016.
So, before forgetting the password, write it down in a notepad. Or reset it to a new password that is hard for others to guess, but easy for you to remember.
If you are using Outlook, your email, calendar, contacts and task information are stored in a *.pst file. To prevent others from viewing your information on Outlook, you may choose to set a password to the pst file.
How to reset Outlook data file password?
MS Outlook is recommended due to its simple usage and easy interface. The features available in this desktop email client are innovative and gives a list of privileges to their users apart from sending or receiving emails. One of the privilege known as password protection is also from the list of that features that allow an Outlook user to secure their PST file from unwanted access.
To recover your Outlook data file forgotten password
1. First, need to download an Outlook password recovery tool.
- Get Cocosenor Outlook Passwword Tuner from internet.
- Click on the cocosenor-outlook-password-tuner.exe file to install this utility on your computer.
2. Select Outlook pst file.
- Close Microsoft Outlook application.
- Click Open on the Outlook Password Tuner dialog.
- Select the Outlook pst file to import it into the password recovery program.
3. Select attack type and adjust attack settings.
- Below Type of attack, click on drop-down list, and select an attack type.
- Adjust the attack settings corresponding to the attack type.
- Encryption over an Outlook PST file gives a better and enhanced privacy level of your Outlook data. Means, a person without having credentials will not have the rights to open password protected PST file.
4. Begin the password recovery process by clicking on the Start button.
- After recovering password, the following dialog box pops up.
- Do you find the password on it? If yes, open your Outlook email with the recovered password.
Securing Outlook emails is a good practice, but fails when a user forgot the password which he had applied to the PST file in order to make it secure or private. For example, your network administrator might have input a password on your data file while configuring an account for you. And now when you are trying to access the same data file, Outlook is prompting a pop-up to input password which network admin has defined earlier.
Finally, I had to resort to using one of those PST password recovery programs to get access to the file. It actually didn’t give me the exact password that I originally used, but it gave me another password that allowed me to unlock the file.
In this article, I’ll write about several tools you can use to recover a PST password. Some of the programs are free, which I mention first and the rest are all paid. Always try the free options first before making any kind of purchase.
Free PST Recovery Tools
Password – This free tool from Microsoft is the safest and easiest to use, but it only officially works on Outlook 97 to Outlook 2007. It had been updated to find the PST file for Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016, but it’s not guaranteed to work.
It’s one of the easiest programs because all you literally have to do is run the program and that’s it. You don’t even have to install anything. The program will automatically find the PST files if you have Outlook installed and give you the up to three possible passwords that should work for the file. You can also load a PST file manually if you like by dragging and dropping it onto the program window.
Those are really the only two safe and clean tools that I could find that were free. If you have a newer version of Office installed, you’ll most likely have to use one of the paid programs below. It’s worth noting that most of the paid programs have free trials that can at least tell you whether or not the password can be recovered. In some cases, it’ll give you a character or two of the password instead of the whole password. This way you at least know if you spend the money, you’ll be able to access your PST file.
This method applies to Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013, and Outlook 2016.
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