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... DON'T DELETE A CERTIFICATE FROM INTERNET EXPLORER UNLESS YOU REALLY
KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
A few days ago I was playing around with SSL certificates on my Win2K
system ... I wanted to create a personal certificate that I could
authenticate against a SSL server I'm running.
Ok, so I go into Internet Explorer, find my certificate ... and delete it.
No harm, I think, if it's bad the system should just recreate one. I
don't use a specific certificate for anything (that I know of).
Well, the next day I try to get into Quicken ... and my quicken files
are encrypted (did that when I took my laptop on a trip ... in case
someone ripped it off, I didn't want them to be able to access my
quicken data).
Quicken told me that it couldn't access the data files.
I tried to copy the quicken files and was told that access was denied
... perhaps the file was in use. Well, that's happened before ... so I
ran CHKDSK /F and rebooted.
Tried to access Quicken again ... no go.
Did a bit of research on the web and found that the IE is used to manage
the certificates used in the encrypting file system components.
Now the question is ... how the heck do I get my certificates back? I
didn't back them up.
Lucky for me, however, I HAD imaged my system to my wifes PC about 2
weeks earlier. Didn't think I could restore the certificates directly
from the image ... but I could restore the image to another PC, backup
the certificates to a floppy, then import them into my real system.
To make a long story short ... it worked fine. I had to whack my
scorched earth machine, but that's an easy re-install.
So be very careful when you start screwing around with things you don't
understand completely. :)
david
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