Why Microsoft Outlook is not working properly ?

With its marvelous features and user friendliness, Microsoft Outlook is used in large number of organizations. But you may face difficulties while working with Outlook and get different errors which might be related to the core file of Outlook: the PST file.

A PST file contains all Outlook objects like emails, contacts, tasks, journals, notes, calendar entries, attachments etc. If the file gets corrupted then your Outlook may stop working or may start showing different errors or might behave abruptly. You may get any of the following error-

Outlook PST Errors :

• Your personal storage table (PST) file is corrupted
• Outlook.pst can not be accessed – 0x80040116
• The file xxxx.pst is not a personal folders file.
• File xxxx.pst could not be accessed. Data error. Cyclic redundancy check
• Unable to display the folder. The file xxxx.pst could not be accessed. Access denied
• Errors have been detected in the file. Quit all mail-enabled applications, and then use the Inbox Repair Tool

If you face any of these PST File errors, you must know that there is some problem with your PST file. You need to understand the error and find the proper solution to handle the situation.

Due to the critical nature of .pst file, Microsoft has already included a utility in Outlook, named as Scanpst.exe which might help in resolving above error issues. For using Scanpst.exe, firstly identify the path of it based on your system configuration. By default the location is : C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033. You can use this utility on your corrupt .pst file. It scans corrupt PST file and might show some errors. If you want to fix the errors then firstly take the backup of file and then click on repair button.

If the corruption is not severe then scanpst.exe could fix the errors in PST file. Irony is that, most of the time it does not repair PST file due to its limitations and you found yourself helpless. However you still have hope as a well featured third party software for Outlook PST Repair could be very useful when scanpst.exe fails. Stellar Outlook PST repair is such a powerful tool which is build specifically to repair and recover corrupt PST file. It works efficiently with almost all Outlook versions and compatible with Windows 7, vista, XP, 2000 and NT.