In Microsoft Outlook 2002 and its earlier versions, you can not create a PST file of more than 2 GB. If your PST file exceeds 2 GB, you will face performance problem and Outlook may possibly crash while working.

To prevent the PST corruption and Outlook crash, you need to keep the file size less than 2 GB. To do so, you can delete the unwanted emails, notes, contacts, meeting schedules and many other objects from your Outlook account.

It will keep the size limited and won’t let the problem occur. But sometimes when you try to delete an Outlook object, you may fail to do it. When you empty the ‘Deleted Items’ folder, you may receive the following error message:

“The operation failed due to a registry or installation problem. Restart Outlook and try again. If the problem persists, please reinstall.”

After this error message, you will not be able to delete any item from your Outlook account.

Cause

There are three possible cases of this error message:

1.      Damaged email messages or other Outlook objects in ‘Deleted items’ folder

2.      The Outlook’s registry entries of your Windows computer are deleted

3.      The Outlook installation is damaged

No matter what the reason of this problem is, the result will be undeleted Outlook objects and increased size of PST file.

Resolution

In order to work around this problem, you can use the following two methods:

1.      Use Inbox Repair Tool on the deleted items, after restoring them, and try to delete after completing the process

2.      Create a new PST file and copy all the objects to it, excepting deleted items and then remove the old file

Though these methods are useful in some cases but there is not guarantee that these will work in your case also. If they fail to work, then the PST file size will continue increasing and when it will reach to 2 GB, the file may become damaged and the data stored in it may become inaccessible.

In such situations, you need to use PST recovery software to repair and restore damaged split PST file in each and every case. These software are very easy to use and perform repair Outlook PST in few easy and quick steps.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is the best ever made and the most powerful PST recovery software which is capable of attending all the PST corruption issues. This software is extremely powerful and easy to use, so that you can have absolute repair Outlook PST in a simple way.