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PROS: Stellar Outlook PST Repair software simply works. It’s in our opinion the best PST file recovery program out there. IT works wonders at repairing corrupt pst files. For a realy nice in-depth understanding about PST files we recommend you check out http://www.pstfilerepair.net/
CONS: The cost is not easy to swallow. At 129 dollars this can be a big turn off to many customers. However it is the best program out there at recovering corrupt pst files so you do get what you pay for.
OVERVIEW: pctechguide.com rate this product a strong buy because it works at fixing corrupt pst files. Our PST file is perhaps the most important file we have on our computers. The user interface is simple and the product comes with a 30 day money back guarantee.
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Stellar Outlook PST Repair Review
Company: Stellar Version: 4.5
Release Date June 2010 10 Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 7/Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT4 (SP6)
What It Does
Recovery tool to repair corruption of Outlook email, calendar, and address books.
– Microsoft Windows
Product Details
If you’ve never experienced the loss of email or your address book, consider yourself lucky. Major corporations, small business and home users have become to rely on email as a critical business and communication tool. A non functioning email program can bring tears and terror as it can contain product orders, invoices, letters of intent and all sorts of important business transactions and records. To the home user, a personal contact list could contain bank, credit card and home owner names and numbers.
Outlook unfortunately like many other programs can become corrupted for many reasons from a virus, an email file larger than 2GB, to other hardware failures. Regardless of the source, the lost of email is devastating. Thankfully Stellar PST recovery tool has come to the rescue.
Most end users would not know that all their email settings are contained in the PST file. To assist with locating the source file, a search window is presented to the end user.
Selecting START and the program will search the hard drive and locate any PST found. If you have multiple users on a system, you can have the system add any additional account PST files to the repair list.
I purposely corrupted my pst file to test the functionality of the repair tool by opening the pst in a non Outlook program and saving it using the pst extension. Stellar repaired the file and presented a completed Outlook layout with the emails and other data in tack to be recovered and imported into Outlook.
After Stellar’s repair process is completed using the evaluation downloaded version, the end user is prompted with a decision to save the recovered PST. A evaluation copy requires that a purchase of the software was necessary to complete the repair. The recovered file will be named as the username recovered.pst.
Security
Password protected PST files can be recovered. Stellar does offer a tool to recover Outlook lost passwords.
Installation
The software is delivered as an .exe file and installs without any issues.
Knowledge Level
Novice = 3 Intermediate = 2 Expert = 1
There’s not much to running the repair tool. No special knowledge is needed for the most simple repair.
Advanced users can invoke more detailed recovery and repairs.
Technical Support
The company has a toll free support line that operates Monday through Friday 24/7. There are also frequently asked questions, and links to videos.
License Model
One license pack per PC.
Conclusion
One day you may access your email and get an error. Don’t panic. Stellar’s PST repair tool can alleviate your lost email horror stories. Simple and effective, although a pricey software tool for the average user, recovery of lost emails, contacts and calendars is priceless.