Deleting Certificates from IE 10

This section provides a tutorial example on how to delete a certificate from IE 10. Deleted certificate can be re-installed back from a certificate file.

As you can see from the previous tutorial, the list of trusted root CA certificates in IE is quite long. It contains many root CA certificates you are probably never going to use them. If you want to, you can delete root CA certificates that are not needed from IE 10.

Here is what I did on IE 10 to delete the "VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5" certificate, which is actually needed to validate the login.yahoo.com certificate. Let's delete it and see what will happen if we visit https://login.yahoo.com again.

1. Run IE 10 as administrator and click the "Tools" > "Internet Options" menu. The Internet Options dialog box shows up.

2. Click the "Content" tab and the "Certificates" button. The Certificates dialog box shows up.

3. Click the "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" tab. A list of trusted root CA certificates currently installed in IE 10 is listed.

4. Select "VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5" in the list, and click the "Remove" button. A warning message box shows up:

Delete Certificates from IE 10
Removing Certificate from IE 10

5. Read the warning message and click "Yes":

Deleting system root certificate might prevent some Windows components
from working properly. ... If Update Root Certificates is installed, 
any deleted third-party root certificates will be restored 
automatically, but the system root certificates will not. Do you want
to delete the selected certificate(s)?

6. Close IE 10.

The "VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5" certificate is deleted from IE 10 now.

Last update: 2015.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

 Introduction of HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)

Using HTTPS with IE (Internet Explorer) 10

 Visiting "https" Web Site with IE 10

 Viewing Server Certificate Details in IE 10

 Viewing Server Certificate Path in IE 10

 Installing Server Certificate Permanently in IE 10

 Viewing Certificates in Certificate Stores in IE 10

 Listing of Trusted Root CA in IE 10

 Exporting Certificate to File from IE 10

 Saving Server Certificate to File with IE 10

Deleting Certificates from IE 10

 IE 10 Supporting Multiple Certificate Paths

 IE 10 Reinstalling Root Certificates Automatically

 Windows Automatic Root Update Mechanism

 Using HTTPS with Chrome 40

 Using HTTPS with Firefox 35

 Perl Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 PHP Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 Java Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 Certificate Stores and Certificate Console

 .NET Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 CAcert.org - Root CA Offering Free Certificates

 PKI CA Administration - Issuing Certificates

 Digital Signature - Microsoft Word 2007

 Digital Signature - OpenOffice.org 3

 S/MIME and Email Security

 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) Terminology

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

 PDF Printing Version