Delete the free spaces from your Outlook instantly

PST file are the most importantly required part of Microsoft outlook. Without a PST file you can’t work on Outlook. PST file works as Personal Information Manager of the Outlook in which you can save emails, contacts, tasks, calendar entries, notes etc. But sometimes it happens that your PST file grows very large and you need to reduce the size of your Outlook files. One of the way to reduce the size of PST file is by compressing the size of the Outlook files.

Compressing an Outlook PST file means to eliminate the deleted space in the Outlook which are taking unnecessary space in the Outlook. Compressing a PST file reduces the size of Outlook. The more frequently you compress your Outlook files the better Outlook will work smoothly.

Benefits of PST Compression:

• The benefits of PST compression are to conserve space on computer's hard disk.
• By compacting PST file the size of the PST file does not grows large and this keeps the Outlook functionality smooth and intact.
• Management and use of the PST file becomes easier.

Microsoft Utility for compaction process: Microsoft provides an application to compress the larger PST files. This method can be regarded as an automatic method to compress the PST file. You can follow these steps to compact PST file manually:

• Select the personal folder you want to compact
• Click on the option Settings
• Click on General
• Now click on 'Compact Now' for compacting the PST file

But this utility does not turn out to be much effective because of some shortcomings such as it is not able to compact large PST file. And if in case it starts compacting the large PST file it takes so much of the time that it results in finally quitting the compaction process.

Therefore after the failure of 'Compact Now' utility you can go with a professional and result oriented third party Compact PST Software which guarantees the efficient compaction of the larger sized PST file. There is one such software for compressing the Outlook file which also has numerous advanced feature which helps in the compaction process. This software can compact both PST as well as OST files effectively.