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What are the Windows system certificate stores?

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When adding certificates, stls, ctls and crls to the system, I can choose the certificate store. I have found only references to the "my" and "root" stores so far. Are there any other?

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There are three types of certificate stores in Windows. User Account store Service Account store Local Computer store Each of the three stores contain a number of folders which certificates go into Personal (can be known as My when using scripts to …

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