Originally I had installed Win XP and Office 2003 on my computer. Recently I
bought Vista and re-installed my Office 2300. Everything has been running
correctly since.

A few days ago however I had some trouble with Outlook and ran scanpst.exe
successfully. Today, when I discussed some technical problems with a friend
of mine, to my great surprise I cannot find scanpst.exe any more. It is
definitely nowhere on my computer (I'm no newbie, by the way, so I do know
how and where to search!!).

I managed to retrieve scanpst.exe from my Office installation CD. When I try
to run it it complains it cannot find scanpst32.dll. Another intense search
on my machine, this time for that *.dll file, brought no result. And here
comes the next surprise: On the installation CD this *.dll file is also not
present! Was it created automatically during the installation of Office?

What or who removed these two *.pst files from my machine? Could one of the
recent updates automatically performed by Microsoft be the culprit?

Also, here are the default locations for the file:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272227/en-us

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"CHELLO" wrote in message
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Hi, Russ,

Sure, I knew you would jump in here! :-)

Thanks for this hint, but of course I have already done all my home work as
far as research is concerned.

What really vexes me is the fact that after setting up Vista on my machine
and installing Office 2003 these two scanpst files actually were present in
their proper location. As I described in my first posting I did run a normal
scanpst process once, with positive results. It was only on my next attempt,
a few days later, that I discovered the two files are not present on my
machine any more. I have a faint suspicion one of the recent automatic
updates from Microsoft might have nuked them, particularly after having read
that scanpst is alleged to be incompatible with Vista.

I'm still waiting for some explanation to this strange occurrence.

Hope everything is well over there in your part of the World,

Kind regards,

Johannes

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Any information you have read about scanpst not being compatible with Vista
is at this point a legend that cannot be confirmed. I know of no
reproducible information to that effect and have in fact been using it just
fine for 2 years on Vista. What happened when you repaired your Office
installation? What do you see when you examine the default file location for
scanpst?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"CHELLO" wrote in message
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Hi, Russ,

OK now... one good night's sleep, and things look entirely different now. I
know now why so many people sternly refuse to use Vista: Trying to find your
way round the system's intricacies turns out to be more work than what is
necessary for a doctorate's dissertation!

MS's programmers have once again managed to do their best - this time in the
process of converting the basic English version of Vista to other language
versions. I'm using the German clone on my machine, and here a large number
of Vista's system-imminent folders and associations are displayed with their
German name whilst internally the system still works with the original
English designations. And on top of that, some important folders, as for
example "Common Files" (= "Gemeinsame Dateien" on my machine) turn out to be
totally inaccessible from Windows Explorer, even with full administrator's
rights.

CHELLO wrote:
But why,

It's Steve Ballmer who runs things now. If you're wondering why it's so
messed up, check out Mr Ballmer at one of his rallies;

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xJ3y_QopcuQ

Here he is pushing Windows 1.0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk

Would you buy a used car from this man?

Alias

Ein grandioses A.....l....ch!

Ask S.B.'s language experts to translate that into English - don't they have
the greatest fully-automatic translation machines in the World?

Thanks for giving me a great laugh!

Kind regards,

Johannes

I had no problem migrating directly to the location of scanpst in Windows
Explorer once I enabled the display of hidden files. As I recall I had to do
the same on Windows XP.

I quite agree that it took a while to learn how to navigate around Vista
because of the new security restrictions that put most of it off limits even
to administrators (even administrators aren't running...

Russ,

you are 100%% right with your alst sentence!!! :-)

Kind regards,

Johannes

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CHELLO wrote:

The folder denoted in the environment variable %%CommonProgramFiles%% may be a
system or hidden folder in Vista. Enabling the viewing of that folder in
Folder Options should allow you to see it. Moreover, even if hidden or
system, entering the path to it in Windows Explorer should always allow you
to see the contents.