How to remove certificate from Store cleanly

Question

You can install certificate into certificate store using Wizard in certmgr.msc (Right click install)? Does anyone knows how to \"cleanly\" remove all the certificate by either u

Answer 1

You can try certmgr.exe. The following command removes a certificate with a cn of 'commoncertname ' from the local user personal\certificates store.

.\certmgr.exe -del -n commoncertname -c -s -r currentuser my

You can find more information about certmgr.exe here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa376553%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

UPDATE

Duh! I can't believe I didn't try this! You can remove certificates with the following:

Get-ChildItem Cert:\CurrentUser\My | Where-Object {$_.Subject -eq 'CN=certCN'} | Remove-Item