Deleting Certificates from IE

This section provides a tutorial example on how to delete a certificate from IE. 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.

Here is what I did on IE 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 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 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
Removing Certificate from IE

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.

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

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

 Introduction of HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)

 Using HTTPS with Google Chrome

 Using HTTPS with Mozilla Firefox

 HTTPS with Microsoft Edge

 Using HTTPS with Apple Safari

HTTPS with IE (Internet Explorer)

 Visiting "https" Website with IE

 Viewing Server Certificate Details in IE

 Viewing Server Certificate Path in IE

 Installing Server Certificate Permanently in IE

 Viewing Certificates in Certificate Stores in IE

 Listing of Trusted Root CA in IE

 Exporting Certificate to File from IE

 Saving Server Certificate to File with IE

Deleting Certificates from IE

 IE Supporting Multiple Certificate Paths

 IE Reinstalling Root Certificates Automatically

 Windows Automatic Root Update Mechanism

 Android and Server Certificate

 iPhone and Server Certificate

 Windows Certificate Stores and Console

 RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and Server Certificate

 macOS Certificate Stores and Keychain Access

 Perl Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 PHP Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 Java Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 .NET Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 CAcert.org - Root CA Offering Free Certificates

 PKI CA Administration - Issuing Certificates

 Comodo Free Personal Certificate

 Digital Signature - Microsoft Word

 Digital Signature - OpenOffice.org 3

 S/MIME and Email Security

 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) Terminology

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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