How To change Password Of Outlook PST file

Microsoft Outlook is one of the Personal Information Manager from Microsoft, Which is available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. The current version of MS-Office Outlook is Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 for Windows and Microsoft Office Outlook 2011 for Mac.

MS-Office Outlook is used for email application, which includes a calender, task manager, contact manager, note taking, a journal and web browsing. This Outlook Application can be used as a stand-alone application or it can work with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SharePoint Sever which is used for multi-users in an organization.

As you all know that, Sometimes you might think that your password for PST file has been known by others, or you think that password is too difficult to remember, and then you would like to change the password of PST file in Microsoft Outlook.

So, here is the solution on how to change the password for PST file in Microsoft Outlook. It consists of the following steps :-

1) First, Run the Microsoft Outlook 2007.

2) Click on the File option and then choose the Data File Management option.

3) Then, Account Settings dialog box pop up, click on Data Files Tab, choose your PST file and then click on Settings.

4) Now, the Personal Folders dialog box open, Select Change Password option.

5) Within your Change Password Option dialog box, type your old password as well as new password in the appropriate textbox and retype your new password in order to Verify the password.

6) If you want that your computer should remember your new password then tick mark on the Save this password in your password list option.

7) When all this process finishes off, click on OK.

So, these are the few steps to change the password of Outlook PST file which you can use of it in order to make your PST file protected. Never create a password which is difficult to remember because your outlook PST file will become inaccessible, if you don't know correct password. In that situation PST password recovery software can be used to recover lost password.

How to set the Password on Microsoft Word Document File

Microsoft Office Word is a Word Processor which is designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name of Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Its several other platforms include IBM PC's running DOS, Apple Machintosh, AT&T Unix PC, SCO Unix, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. It is one of the components of Microsoft Office Software Systems. The current versions are Microsoft Office Word 2010 for Windows and Microsoft Office Word 2011 for Mac. Microsoft Word’s file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx files extension natively.

As we all know that MS Word documents contain sensitive user's information that needs to be password-protected in order to get away with various security threats and ensure data protection. Hackers either in your organization or out of the workplace can get an access to the private and confidential data by cracking these Word passwords very easily. Accordingly, it becomes essential to set strong and reliable passwords to the important MS Word files. MS-Word allows the easy encryption of the word document files. Hence it also allows the user to set the password according to their choice as “password to open” or “password to modify” or both.

So, you have two choices to set the password on word document file. Here are some steps to set the password

1. Set Password to open the document

• If you want to prevent unauthorized users from opening your documents at all, you can assign password to open.
  
• To assign a password to your document choose Options on the Tools menu and then click on the Save tab.
  
  
  
  
• If you want to open a protected document the following dialog box appears:
  
  
  
• Those users who don't know the password cannot open your document.
  

2. Password to modify the document

• To assign the modified password in your document choose Options on the Tools menu and then click on the Save tab.
  
   
• By applying Password to modify, you can allow others to open the document in read only mode. Only authorized users can do changes into document file. You can assign a password for modify the document. If you try to open word document which is protected with password to modify then the following dialog box will appear:

• Now, you have to enter the password and open your document or open your document in read-only mode.

So, these are the two types of passwords (password to open and password to modify) which you can use to make your word document file protected. You should always make a habit of using or creating a strong password which you can easily remember because if you loss password then Word file will become inaccessible for you. In that case you need to use Word Password Recovery software to regain access of your valuable and critical file.

How to Protect ZIP File

As you all know WinZip is the world's no. 1 zip utility for file compression. The ZIP file format is one of the most widely used compression and archiving file formats. The zip file format permits a number of compression alogorithms. Mostly, there are such files have a .zip extension and they are basically used to reduce the size of one or more files and/or to archive multiple files and folders into a single file. In Addition, the contents of a ZIP file can optionally be encrypted and it is viewable to only those who know the password. Both Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Mac OS provide built-in operating system support for opening, reading, and creating ZIP files. If ZIP folder contains confidential and important files then it advisable that always protect it with password.

Here are some easy steps to create and password protect a Zip file in Windows. This will compresses, a complete set of files or folders into a single encrypted file for easy transport through emails. So, these are as follows:-

1. Right click on the folder you want to zip and encrypt, and then scroll down the menu click to the Send To tab. From which submenu that pops up, click on Compressed (zipped) Folder.

2. This will led you to create a new zipped folder containing everything of yours original folder. This folder will appear on your desktop as (old folder name).zip and will look like this...

3. Now, Double-click on the zipped folder to open it. Once you are inside the folder click on File option in the top left corner of the window and then, select Add a Password.

4. Finally, This will prompt you to create a password to encrypt the folder. Type and retype your password, Click on OK, and Now you have successfully created a secure zipped folder.

You should always make an habit of using/creating a strong password which you can easily remember because if you loss password then ZIP file will become inaccessible for you. In that case you need to use ZIP Password Recovery software to regain access of your valuable file.

How to set RAR file Password

WinRAR has become a great way to share files on internet. it is a powerful tool also which allow you to create and handle archive files. It consistently makes smaller archives, saves disk space and transmission costs. To protect important files from unauthorized access user create password-protected RAR archives. Some times you just want that selected group (like family members, friends etc) of peoples can access your file, in that case password-protected RAR file will be very helpful. Although there are multiple ways to limit access to these RAR files, but the built-in password protection feature is generally considered as the best option. If RAR file contains confidential and important data then it advisable that always protect it with password.

Follow written steps to create RAR files and create password:-

• Open WinRAR>click on Wizard >Select “Create a new archive”.

• Then click on “Next”.

• Now select the which you need to be added to the archive and then press “OK”. Provide the desired name to the Archive.

• Again click on “Next”.

• Now, Its the most important step to set the password. Here you have to click on the “Set password “ option.

• So, Here you can set the password in two ways :-

1. Set password will be in asterisks :- Here you cannot see the set password, hence you will need to enter it twice for confirmation. Just enter the password you want to set.
2. Set password can be seen :- Here it needs to be entered once. Tick mark on “Show password”. Just enter the password you want to set only once.

• Click on “Ok” this will lead you to the following window.

• Click on “Finish”. Your password protected RAR Archive will be created in your Desktop.

• Type I- RAR Archive will open. It will show you an asterisk just beside the files indicating that it will need password to extract the files.

Always try to create strong password which you can easily remember because if you loss password then RAR file will become inaccessible for you. In that case you need to use RAR password Recovery software to regain access of your valuable file.

How To Set Password On PDF File

PDF(Portable Document Format) is a compressed document format proposed by Adobe systems. It is one of the most popular document format and used as an open standard in document exchange. Now a days, it is used everywhere home, schools, small and big organizations. PDF files have high security features that's why people prefer PDF documents. User can set password on PDF file to protect their pdf files from copying , editing and printing. There are two types of PDF Passwords:- owner password and user password.

User can increase the document's security by limiting access and protect Pdf files by creating passwords. With applying password on PDF file owner can restrict user to perform certain activities, Like you can set the owners password by prevent from copying, editing and printing.

Follow bellow written steps to Set Password on PDF file :-

• First, Go to main menu and Select Secure option from Toolbar and then Click on Restrict Opening and Editing option. You can also Encrypt for Certain Identities Using Certificates.
• For setting Open Password:- Click on check box 'Require a password to open the document' and then enter a password if you want to restrict others to open your pdf file.
• For setting Owner Password:- Click on check boxes 'Permissions' and then enter the permissions password ( every users have to provide a right password before changing their security settings). You may also set restrictions of Printing Allowed and Changes Allowed in the Permission is filed.
• Finally click on Ok when process is complete.

The above steps will allow you to set PDF Password is for Adobe Acrobat. It is advisable that always set a strong password which is easy to remember because if you ever loss your Open Password then you could not able to access your PDF file.

How to crack Excel Password with Stellar Phoenix

Often it becomes necessary to set a strong password on your Excel files to prevent it from unauthorized access and modification. Due to different online services and accounts available to all of us, it is likely that you might forget your Excel password due to multiple of passwords. It will lose your important workbooks which may contain your important data and can suspend your projects if you can’t retrieve it on time.

It is a good fortune to all of us; that we have a useful password recovery tool like Stellar Phoenix Excel Password Recovery available online. It is basically, developed for Excel users to recover lost or forgotten Excel password. It supports all Excel versions like MS Excel 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000 and compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000 which ensure the 100% recovery of your excel passwords.

Steps to Crack Excel Password

• You need to run Stellar Phoenix Excel Password Recovery 
  
  
  
• Then, click on the 'Select File' option to select the excel file
  
  
  
• After that, go to the masking option that provides you the possibility to get closer to your actual password by using password length and mask characters options, here you can provide the starting character if you remember and in the mask character option you can provide the characters ('A-Z','a-z','0-9') if you remember the characters used in the password 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Then, you can click on the 'Recover Password' option, will display a current password combination being tried among various many other useful details 
  
  
  
  
  
• Finally, a password will be recovered click on the 'save' option, to save the password in .txt file for future references
  
  
  

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Methods to Reset Windows Password

Today's world is technology savvy world. About 95% of people use computers, laptops in their day to day life. And Windows is most used operating system. From home to office every one prefer to use Windows operating system as it has easy user interface and various other features.

Windows also provide opportunity to apply password into user account to protect the account. Generally everyone implement password into their windows system. And to maintain its security it is required to change the password in certain interval of time. But maintaining this password creates problem, when people implement difficult password and forget it or certain times loss its backup. Certain situation can create big mess. Suppose your system contained your presentation and you have forgotten the password as you have changed it very last day of presentation to make it more secure. This can halt the business process and can also cost you big amount.

Some methods are available through which password reset is possible:

Password Reset Disk: Windows operating system provide opportunity to create password reset disk before hand. But most of the people either forget to create it or certain times don't bother to create and create mess when stuck in password loss situation.

Lost Email Password? Here is the Solution.....

I got various mails regarding email password loss situation on daily basis. These days email password loss is one of the common problem. As these days people have various accounts to maintain, each secured with password. And it become difficult to keep track of each and every password and result in password loss or forgotten situation.


I thought to share about the scenario and solution. So that it may help many more people who also found themselves stuck in this type of situation.

Let me tell you the whole incident. The person has maintained various email accounts on various email applications such as Outlook, Incredimail, Windows Live Mail, etc. He realised that it is hard to remember all the passwords so he felt it better to write down all the password in piece of paper and used to keep it with him atleast in office. So that he won't feel problem while accessing email accounts. But one day by mistake during cleaning his various files and papers he has thrown that piece of paper realising that it is garbage. This mistake him restricted him from accessing his various email accounts. He tried to remember certain password but failed to remember. Then he sent me his problem that How to recover mail password?

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Till now people used to forget Pdf file password and wonder how to retrieve it. Consider a situation when you need to do certain modification in your Pdf file and realise that you have forgotten Pdf password.

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This newly launched Pdf password recovery software can help you recover your lost or forgotten passwords of protected portable document format files. Pdf password recovery software supports Adobe Acrobat version 2.0 to 9.0.

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