Larger the PST Size – Bigger is the Problem: Personal Storage Table (PST) is the main repository of all your significant data in MS Outlook application. Sometimes, it so happens that your Outlook 2007 program stops responding temporarily while you are doing some general processes like sending a mail message, moving an email from one folder to other, deleting some emails, or even while reading contents of an email. This erratic behavior can also sometimes lead to application crash, which in turn results in making your Outlook PST file inaccessible to you. The occurrence of this problem becomes frequent as your Outlook account grows older with passing time as one major reason for this problem is the large size of PST file in your mailbox. PST Storage Size is Different in Different Outlook Versions: Your MS Outlook application is more likely to start operating sluggishly after the PST storage size grows immensely. The problem takes place and becomes more grave & troublesome when the size of PST file comes near the 2 GB maximum storage limit mark in ANSI PST. The problem get all the more frequent and troubling if the PST file size crosses 4 GB. Outlook 2007 does not limit the file storage size to 2 GB limit like there is in Outlook 2002 and earlier versions. In Outlook 2007, the Unicode PST format supports files larger than 2 GB also. By default, the maximum storage size limit in Outlook 2007 PST is configured to 20 GB. This limit can also set according to your storage requirements. Microsoft Cumulative Performance Update: For fixing this erratic application behavior in Outlook 2007, Microsoft provides a performance update. The following PST size guidelines are generally applied on employing this cumulative update:
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