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Certificate Stores

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Windows stores certificates locally on the computer in a storage location called the certificate store. A certificate store often has numerous certificates, possibly issued from a number of different certification authorities (CAs).

This section includes the following topics:

Local Machine and Current User Certificate Stores

Trusted Root Certification Authorities Certificate Store

Trusted Publishers Certificate Store

For info on viewing certificates, see How to: View certificates with the MMC snap-in.