Monday, March 17, 2008

Inbox Repair Tool of Microsoft Outlook

Outlook PST files can be damaged due to number of reasons including virus attack, hardware failure, software malfunction and improper system shutdown. In these cases, the PST files become inaccessible and can lead to the catastrophic circumstances of data loss.
When the PST files are damaged, MS Outlook will try to repair them automatically. When you start the Outlook, you will see a message window showing that outlook is attempting to repair your mailbox folders. But it doesn’t work in all situations of data loss. In some situations, Outlook may fail to repair these files automatically and you need to repair them using special repair utilities.

In case of PST or OST file corruption, there is a special mailbox repair utility that you can use is called “Inbox Repair Tool”. Inbox Repair Tool or Scanpst.exe is designed to search and repair the corrupted or damaged outlook PST files. When the outlook need inbox repair tool, it will display an error message “"Errors have been detected in the file 'file path'. Quit all mail-enabled applications, and then use the Inbox Repair Tool."

Inbox Repair Tool works in most of the cases of PST corruption but it is not necessary that it will work in your case also. This tool can repair PST files only if it was damaged by Outlook itself. If the file is damaged because of any third party application or plug-in, it won’t be able to retrieve it. It works by repairing the header of PST file and then removing anything in the file that it does not understand. If the data in the file is corrupt, the Inbox Repair Tool will likely destroy what’s left of the file.

If any of these situations occur, the inbox repair tool can cause further damaged to the PST files and sometimes can lead to permanent data loss. In these situations, where Inbox Repair Tool fails to repair the corrupted PST files, you need for third party application that can repair the corrupted Outlook PST files. These software are known as Outlook PST repair software.
Outlook PST Repair are specially designed, third party repair pst software that can help you in repairing and restoring your corrupted outlook PST files. These software scan all personal folders of outlook and locate the corrupted PST files and restore them in their original format. Along with the mails, these software are also capable to repair other components of Outlook including notes, tasks, schedule, calendar, contacts and journal.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is an easy to use and powerful data recovery software. This software provides a simple user interface so that novice users can also use it very easily. This Outlook repair and recovery software scans the damaged .pst file and extracts and restores information in a new usable .pst file, enabling pst recovery. Demo version of the software works in same way as the full version. The only difference that, in demo, you can’t save the recovered files. In demo version of Outlook PST repair software, you can preview 5 e-mails, 20% of contacts and calendar entries from which you can evaluated the efficiency & recovery capability of our software.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

How to recover contact information from Microsoft Outlook

Outlook or Microsoft Outlook is a mail client and personal information manager from Microsoft Corporation that is the part of Microsoft Office suite. It is the most popular and widely used mail client that has several advanced features than IMO mail accounts. Along with the email application facilities, outlook also offers contacts management, task, calendar, schedule, note taking and journal with web browsing functions.

It can be used as a client application as well as conjunction with Microsoft Office Share Point Server and Microsoft Exchange Server to provide improved functions for multiple users in a single organization like shard mailboxes and calendars.

Along with the personal mail folders of Outlook, its added folders like contacts, notes and calendars are also very important and stores critical information. Among all these added folders, Contacts folder stores significant information like person name, phone number, address and pictures from both general and professional user’s point of view.

Though contacts information is important for all kind of users, but when it comes to a businesses or professional user, it becomes very critical to protect this information from corruption, loss and unauthorized access. Therefore users do additional care of contacts information.

In spite of taking extra care, sometimes you may find that your contacts folder is not opening or not showing contacts in the folder or giving some error messages. These problems generally occur due to corruption in contact information folder that can occur due to several reasons like virus attack, improper accessing, and outlook account corruption.

If any of these situations occurs, your contact information become inaccessible and can lead to catastrophic circumstances of data loss. In this way, you can loss your very important personal or business contacts and it can cause serious problems for you.
But you shouldn’t panic. These corrupted contact information can be repaired and accessed normally want the help of outlook pst recovery software.

Outlook PST recovery software are specially designed data recovery software to repair the corrupted outlook PST files. Along with the contacts information, these software can also repair and restore corrupted mail files, notes, schedule, calendar and other outlook PST files.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook pst repair is an easy to use and robust data recovery software to repair the corrupted outlook PST files in all possible cases of PST file corruption. This Outlook repair and recovery software scans the damaged .pst file and extracts and restores information in a new usable .pst file, enabling PST Recovery. You can try the demo version of the software to get to know that how much files are restorable. It preview 5 e-mails, 20% of contacts and calendar entries from which you can evaluated the efficiency & recovery capability of our software.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

How to Manage Outlook PST Files

Microsoft Outlook is the most popular and easy to use mail client from Microsoft. It is comparatively fast mail client, but sometimes you may face some accessing problems with it. These problems include:

• Slow accessing speed of outlook
• Takes long time to start and shut down
• Software starts freezing or hanging up
• Email attachments take long time to retrieve

These problems occur due to the unmanaged PST files. PST files are the outlook files that store all data of Outlook including emails, contacts, attachments, and calendars. If your PST files are unmanaged, it starts showing sluggish behavior due to the large size of attachments; number of files is more than usual in a particular folder or the exceeded size of PST files.

In these situations, to ensure the proper working of Outlook, you need to manage the PST files. You can manage them by dividing the attachments into parts, deleting unnecessary files and by compressing PST files. You can perform this task with the help of special PST management software. These software compress the PST files, delete the unneeded or unusable files and save the attachments on the specified location of your drive. In this way, these software can help you in speed up of outlook and can make it easy to access.

In case when you haven’t used PST management software, it might be possible that your outlook PST files may get corrupted due to their increased size or improper archiving by the user. In these circumstances, your outlook account may become inaccessible and you may fail to read your mails and other data from your outlook account. In such situations, you need to repair your outlook PST files to make them accessible. You can repair your PST file with the help of pst recovery software.

Outlook pst repair software are easy to use and powerful data recovery software that can repair and restore you corrupted outlook PST files. After restoring, you can import these files in your outlook and can use them normally. These software uses advanced searching algorithms to search and locate the corrupted or damaged outlook PST file and restore them in their original format.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is a robust PST repair software that can repair your corrupted or damaged outlook PST files in almost all possible cases of PST corruption. This is a read-only and non-destructive data recovery software that restore your corrupted outlook files in their original format. The software can recover all the contents of Outlook including mails, attachments, notes, schedule, calendar and personal folders. The demo versions of the software display 5 emails and 20% of other contents of your outlook account.

How to Repair Corrupted Outlook PST File

PST or Personal Storage Files is the filename extension of Outlook files. These files are stored on the personal folders of email client on user hard drive. The PST files include mails, notes, calendar, schedule and other items stored in your email account. These files are called personal storage files as these are stored locally with .pst file name extension.

PST is the important file of mail client that user can access and read directly. Sometimes when people try to open their Outlook accounts, they may face several kinds of problems with certain error messages. Some of these error messages includes:

1. Errors have been detected in the file . Close all mail enabled applications, and then use the inbox repair tool.
2. Outlook .pst can not be accessed - 0x80040116
3. OL2000: Unable to use your personal folder file if it exceeds the 2 GB size limit
4. Unable to display the folder

These error messages occur due to the corruption in PST files and they can’t be accessed normally. The PST files may get corrupted due to a number of reasons including:
1. Virus Attack
2. Incorrect modification
3. software corruption
4. improper system shutdown
5. oversized PST in Outlook 2000 and earlier versions

Any of these situations can lead to corruption in PST files and finally can lead to data loss. In these circumstances you need for repair pst solutions to repair the corrupted outlook PST files. You can perform this task with the help of outlook PST repair software.
Outlook PST repair software are designed to repair the corrupted or damaged outlook PST files in your outlook mail account. These software can search the corrupted files and then can repair and restore them in their original format to their original or user specified location. These files later can be imported in outlook in order to use them.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is a powerful yes simple data recovery software that can repair and restore corrupted outlook PST files in an easy and quick way. The software can repair all the corrupted contents of outlook including mails, contacts, notes and calendar. It is a read only and non destructive pst recovery software.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Error in Registry for Extension- “Exchange Extension” in Outlook and recovery

When you open Microsoft Outlook or when you open and close the Add-In manager dialog box in Outlook, you may get the following error message:

Microsoft Office Outlook Error in registry for extension "Exchange Extensions?”

The syntax or format of the registry entry is incorrect. Check the registry settings and compare the registry for this extension to other extensions in the registry.

Cause

This error message may occur due to following three reasons:

  • Sending an email to a recipient by using the following method:
  • Right click the object, point select Send To, and then select Mail Recipient.
  • Wait more than 24 hours
  • Sending a second email to the recipient by using the first method again
  • After sending the second email, the Exchange Extensions string value in the computer registry is gets corrupted.

Resolution

To resolve this problem, you have to edit your computer’s registry. You can Edit the computer Registry by following these steps:

  1. Quit Microsoft Outlook
  2. Click Start button, click Run, type Regedit in open box and click Ok
  3. Expand the Registry and select the following subkey:
  4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Extensions
  5. Right Click on Exchange Extensions, and click Delete
  6. Click Yes for confirmation
  7. In the file menu, click Exit to close the Registry Editor

Though, you can resolve this problem by editing the registry, but it is very risky. A minor mistake may cause operating system corruption. It is very hard for general user. In this situation, repairing the .pst files is very important to save your data; otherwise you may loss your important mails, contacts, notes and several other files stored in your outlook. Outlook pst repair software can help you in these circumstances in repairing your corrupted or damaged .pst files.

Outlook pst repair software are the application software that can help you in repairing and restoring your corrupted or damages outlook .pst files. These software use advanced searching algorithms to search and locate the corrupted outlook files and help you in restoring them. With the help of Outlook pst recovery software, you can recover all outlook contents including emails, notes, contacts, and calendar.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Error While Upgrading Outlook 2000 to XP

Office XP is the most widely used office pack from all file versions of Microsoft Office. Sometimes when you don’t find the some features in earlier versions, you upgrade them with later one. But sometimes this upgrading may cause serious problems and may corrupt the existing files.

The same thing happens when you upgrade office 2000 to office XP and then again to 2000 and use outlook in IMO mode. After that when you again upgrade to office XP. After upgrading, when you open the Outlook XP or Outlook 2002, it displays an error message if you were using outlook 2000 in IMO mode:

“Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The .DLL file for the information service could not be found. MAPI was unable to load the information service Pstprx.dll. Be sure the service is correctly installed and configured.”
In these situations, your outlook email account may become inaccessible.

Cause

This error message generally occurs due to registry problems. When you upgrade the Outlook 2000 to 2002, it set the registry key of the profile that specifies not to upgrade it again. When you revert to Outlook 2000 again and select to use the existing profile and upgrade Outlook 2002 again, the profile gets corrupted during upgrade process.

In this case when you force the Outlook to upgrade again, it may corrupt your registry files and your outlook file become inaccessible.

Resolution

To resolve this problem, you need to delete all the registry keys related to profile upgrade restriction and then install a fresh copy of latest version of Office XP.
But reinstallation is not always safe. It may cause further corruption in the existing files and it might possible that it won’t support to open the existing files with new version. In these situations, you have no option to manually recover or repair the corrupted Outlook files. In this case, you need to use special outlook pst repair software in order to get your corrupted file accessed.

Outlook Repair software are special data recovery and repair tools that can help you in repairing your corrupted or damaged outlook files. These software provides advance searching algorithms to search and locate the corrupted outlook files and recover them. These are simple and user friendly pst recovery software that requires no prior technical knowledge to use them.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is extraordinary data recovery software that can repair and restore data very easily and quickly. This software performs a through scan and repair and restore the corrupted Emails, email attachments, appointments, contacts, notes, tasks, sent mails, draft and schedule.