password protected .pst

[eshakes]

-just rebuilt a users PC
transfered over his .pst's. When attempting to open these
archives, it prompts for a password.
This guy swears up and down he never password protected
his archives and his current and last windows 2k passwords
don't work - just kick back the password promtp screen.

Is there a way around this without a password crack?
How does this happen (assuming this guy didn't password
protect this archives and forget).

-really appreciate any input
thanks x a million

 

[Roady [MVP]]

There is a handy tool to strip the password of a pst-file. The funny thing
is that this tool wasn't even written for stripping the password of a
pst-file but for upgrading the pst-file to a newer format. Stripping the
password was just a (handy) side effect. Don't use this tool for any illegal
activities!!!

Read the pstread.txt file included in the zip before using the utility!
http://www.computerhope.com/download/updates/pst19upg.zip
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