There’s a chance to win some great prizes this festive season (that would be a few presents taken care of!) over at PST Panic! The first prize is a $250 Amazon gift voucher, whilst 2nd and 3rd places get a $150 and $100 Amazon gift voucher respectively. A $10 Amazon gift voucher will also go to the first 50 people who submit their photo. And that’s not all!! Five randomly selected administrators will also get their very own free copy of GFI MailArchiver.
In order to be eligible to win these prizes, you need to register to the site and then submit a photo showing the panic caused by PST files. This could be either a photo of your stressed admin, or one of yourself in the midst of your stressful and frustrating job; or possibly a screenshot of a horrible software crash. You could even get your creative skills going and produce an edited photo of all the very wrong things you want to do to your PC when you find out that your PST files are damaged and unrecoverable!


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