I have a service, running with the "Network Service" permissions that installed a certificate into the "personal certificate store" for the "Network Service".
For reasons that are beyond the scope of this question, I need to remove that certificate, but using the MMC's "Certificates" snap-in I failed to find that certificate. I tried opening the certificate store for "Service"->"Local machine"->"Service name", but there's nothing there while the service definitely reports that it sees the certificate.
Any idea how do I access that personal certificate store?
Best Answer
Registry editor.
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\My
S-1-5-20 is the Network Service account. "My" represents the Personal store.
Delete the entries from there.
Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185059