Know how to shrink PST files easily

Outlook is designed to store personal information of the users by making use of PST (Personal Storage Table) files. But it’s obvious that over the time it grows larger and larger which can lead to many complications and problems related to slow performance and corruption. So, the need arises to shrink PST files in order to make them smaller in size as large sized PST files lead to corruption which in turn directs you to critical data loss situations.

As above stated that there is great need for outlook shrink PST files, but now you must be thinking that what the method is using which you can reduce the file size.

• First of all, start Outlook application by directly clicking on its icon or going to file menu available under Start
• After that, go to file menu available under Standard toolbar
• Click on the Data File Management option from the drop down list of File menu
• From there, select the PST file which you want to shrink
• Go to settings, and then General Tab and then click over the Compact now button which will automatically shrink PST size.
• Lastly click on the OK button

Apart from using in Outlook XP, 2000, 2002 these steps also apply when shrinking PST Outlook 2007 and later versions. Besides following these steps of outlook shrink PST manually, you can also use PST Splitter Tool that is especially designed to decrease the size of large Outlook files with minimal effort. It is capable to shrink Outlook archives as well as all the items of Outlook mailboxes including mails, contacts, appointments, notes, journals etc. this tool gives you the option to shrink PST files on the basis of various criteria like by date, size, folder, selected folders and thus lets you to lessen the size to a large extent.