How To Repair “cannot find scanpst.exe” On Windows Vista

I have been using Outlook application for all my email communication but it kept crashing whenever I tried to access my important emails. since all mailbox objects like emails, attachments, notes, tasks, calender, journals are stored as .pst files. It seems that Microsoft Office was displaying an error “.pst folders file could not be accessed”on opening .pst files on my Windows Vista. Well, obviously, I would use Scanpst.exe for repairing error in Outlook data file. I started searching the Inbox Repair tool but “cannot find scanpst.exe”. 

Where is Scanpst on Windows Vista? 

The location of Windows vista Scanpst.exe is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12. You need to allow viewing of hidden files and folders and you will be able to easily locate Scanpst.exe file when you need to 'Run' for fixing errors in Outlook data files.       

Click on SCANPST.EXE for repairing your PST file. It is generally Outlook.pst data file. If however you get this error message “this application has failed to start because SCNPST32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem”. You might have downloaded scanpst.exe from internet or another computer which is not working properly. So you need to download the correct scanpst.exe file. 

But inbox repair tool cannot repair severely damaged files due to its limitations. Therefore a third party tool, PST Repair Software is used for resolving all pst issues in Outlook which is more efficient and reliable tool. It can also recover permanently deleted files, Over sized and password protected files. 

PST Repair Software Features :

1. recovers permanently deleted files

2. allows users to preview items that are to be recovered for selective recovery of files

3. designed with advanced and powerful algorithm for recovery of all types of errors

4. supports all latest versions of Outlook – 2010, 2013 

PST repair tool also Splits large Outlook PST files into smaller PST files on different criteria like date, file size, folder and protects them from corruption due to PST size limitation. To overcome the limitations of scanpst.exe, the better alternative is to download PST Repair Software which has more advanced features than scanpst.exe for repairing badly corrupted pst files in Outlook. 

If you cannot find scanpst.exe on windows vista pst repair tool can be used for email data recovery in Microsoft Outlook, since Scanpst.exe cannot repair all pst errors, owing to limitations.