How To Fix “Scanpst.exe Unable To Locate Component” Error In Outlook

Are you a Outlook user? Is any type of problem occured in your Outlook application? Are you not able to open your PST file or you suspecting that it has got corrupted? Is Inbox Repair Tool unable to fix it? If the answer is yes then you are at the right place where you can find the solution of your problem. Just follow this post step-by-step.

Microsoft Outlook is the most latest version of Windows. And this application is most widely used by a user. But basically it is used for official or business purposes. This application manages to keep your appointments, e-mails, contacts, notes, reminders etc. It only keeps your official information but you can also keep songs, movies and videos in it. It stores all these information in a file called PST(Personal Storage Table) file. It is a very delicate file so that it gets effected very easily. This corruption may strike anytime. And this corruption effects a lot on your work. Because any type of corruption to a PST file results in lost of data. 

                                                

        

That is why Microsoft has provided an inbuilt tool named “Scanpst.exe” or “Inbox Repair Tool” for repairing corrupted PST file. This tool comes along with every Outlook versions. It automatically gets installed with the installation of MS Outlook. This tool is effective and repairs your damaged or corrupted PST file. This tool not only repairs your corrupted PST file but it also helps to fix other Outlook errors too. But the location of this tool varies according to the Outlook versions. So you have to first find out the location of this tool in order to repair your corrupted PST file.

But sometimes “OLMAPI32.dll” which is an Outlook program file goes missing or get corrupted. In this situation Scanpst.exe fails to work on corrupted PST file and so the Outlook PST file becomes inaccessible. Outlook completely becomes freezed and it does not respond. It only shows an error on the screen “ scanpst.exe unable to locate component”. The reason of this error could be improper Outlook installation or missing OLAMAPI32.dll from the Outlook folder. So, in this situation reinstalling the Outlook application may fix your problem.

After reinstalling the application if it still not works to repair your corrupted PST file then its better to use a third party utility software to repair it. Outlook PST Repair Software is the best software to repair your corrupted PST file. You can easily repair your PST file with the help of this software. This software not only repairs your PST file but also restores it in creating a new file with their actual file name and location. This tool performs advanced scanning and then fix the problem and also recover deleted files safely. And it is compatible with all the versions of Outlook including 2003, 2007 and 2010.