Repairing / Compressing .PST files and Outlook Processes in Task Manager

Does Outlook 2010 still use scanpst.exe for repairing .PST files?  That seems to be what I read in a few articles that I found online, but I can't seem to find my scanpst.exe   file.  It either wasn't installed originally or it has been deleted
by something.  I am running Windows 7 Pro and I I looked in the Office 14 folder, which is where the article said it should be, but it wasn't there.  I also search the whole drive.  I found a scanpst.exe0002 in an installs directory.  I
am assuming that is the file in some form of compressed format as it comes for installation, but I don't know how to get it into the standard .exe format.
I tried running Outlook repair from the Program Installs / Uninstalls application.  That does not seem to have helped.
The reason I am even doing this is that Outlook is hanging, e.g. just stoppin and not responding.  It does this when I select a specific PST folder and it may do it at other times.  But it is more than just Outlook hanging.  When it hangs,
you can shut down Outlook, but there is still an Outlook Process running that cannot be shut down at least by my normal none admin user ID.  
And even more strange is that when this is the case, I cannot log off nor can I shutdown.  The whole system just hangs in a state of limbo.  I can walk away and come back a half hour later and the screen will still say "Logging off" or
" Shutting down".
I see not error messages concerning Outlook in the Application Event log.  I do see a whole bunch of Warning messages about Outlook, but they are all about Event Id 27, "Calendar Folder Property missing" and date back to January
What do I do here?  I am thinking that there may be an issue with one or more of my pst files either growing too large, or being corrupted.  I don't know what else can hang Outlook like that.  And I am concerned that I can't shut down a process
running under my ID.
Henry

Yes, unless you're using the Click to Run (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982434) version of Office then scanpst.exe should be there. Note, depending on whether it's 32 or 64 bit it can be found in either
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14
or
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14
so I wonder if you were looking in the wrong one? Depending on your setup it's possible to have both paths on your system, though only one of them will contain the required files.

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