Housekeeping and Message Management Tools ?
Outlook is an important tool for any individual or business house & managing it to perform better not only increases your efficiency but also your productivity. Housekeeping or Message management is one of the utmost important tasks anyone should perform with their outlook. Either it is any version of Outlook starting from 98, 2000, 2002, 2003 or 2007. Managing your mails and synchronizing them to increase the performance of your Outlook is essential.
Commonly termed as Housekeeping or Message Management, you are the one to take care and follow some simple processes to manage your folders and clean your Outlook to give better performance.
- Archive your mails periodically.
- Empty your deleted items folder from time to time.
- Compress your attachments and mails in your folders using third party software’s.
- Manage space through compact of your folders.
- You can also remove attachments from sent messages.
- Check your folder size and note which folder is using great space. Delete the unwanted mail to keep things fast.
- Take time to time backup of your outlook data.
These are some simple and primary steps of housekeeping and message management for your outlook. But beside these simple steps if you outlook is performing slowly and you are not able to synchronize your Outlook, then you can go for housekeeping and message management tool for Outlook.
OL2000: How to Find and Run the Inbox Repair Tool
Inbox Repair Tool is commonly known as Scanpst.ext and OL2000 stand for Outlook 2000. So from the topic its clearly understandable that here we will dealing with how to find Inbox repair tool (Scanpst.exe) for outlook 2000 and will also know how to run it.
Scanpst.exe is generally used on corrupted or damaged .pst file to repair or recover them. Inbox repair too is generally installed with the windows installation as with outlook as per your operating system.
Scanpst.exe can be located on following locations depending on your operating system
For Microsoft Windows NT and Microsoft Windows 2000:
<disk drive>:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\System\\Mapi\\1033\\NT
For Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows 98:
<disk drive>::\\Program Files\\Common Files\\System\\Mapi\\1033\\95
For Outlook 2002 and 2003 Inbox repair tool (Scanpst.exe) is installed automatically with the setup but it is not placed on the menu. It can be located here:
<disk drive>:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\System\\Mapi\\1033\\
<disk drive>:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\System\\MSMAPI\\1033
For outlook 2007 Inbox repair tool can be found here:
<disk drive>:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12
• Just locate Scanpst.exe file here and click on the file to run it.
• Give the location of your .pst file and click start.
• The Scanpst.exe will start running and automatically repair your damaged .pst files.
Once you start running Scanpst.exe it will give various errors for your pst file and ask you to create backup of your pst file. The recommended answer is always yes. If your PST files are seriously corrupted then try running Scandisk.exe first and then Scanpst.exe on that file. Continue the step to repair your .PST files. For more information on recovering and repairing .pst files just visit repair a 2gb Personal Folders file or Offline Folders



