{"id":2839,"date":"2020-03-12T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2020-04-15T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:24:00","slug":"install-root-certificate-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/install-root-certificate-in-windows","title":{"rendered":"How to Install or Import a Root Certificate in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  Root certificates are public-key certificates that help your system determine if a website or program is genuine and is based on whether the licensing authority is trusted and whether the digital certificate remains valid.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  If the digital certificate does not belong to a trusted authority, you will receive an error message in the form \u201cThere is a problem with the security certificate\u201d, and the system may block the connection to the website or the launch of the program for your safety.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  There are many certificate authorities, among which the most famous are Symantec<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> and Comodo<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. And their <strong>root certificates<\/strong> are always <strong>freely available for download<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  Windows has built-in certificates and automatically renews them. However, you can still optionally manually add additional root certificates to Windows from trusted certificate authorities (CAs).\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>This is just done<\/strong> in a few steps. The method is suitable for all versions of Windows.\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n    On the downloaded root certificate file, right-click and select the &#8216;Install Certificate&#8217;. In the window that opens, the installation\u00a0wizard press &#8216;Next&#8217;.\n  <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/install-root-certificate-in-windows\/install-certificate-from-file-en.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a computer\n\nDescription automatically generated\" title=\"install-certificate-from-file - How to Install or Import a Root Certificate in Windows\" \/>\n  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/install-root-certificate-in-windows\/install-certificate-wizard-begin-en.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a computer\n\nDescription automatically generated\" title=\"install-certificate-wizard-begin - How to Install or Import a Root Certificate in Windows\" \/>\n  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n    Next, you need to choose the right place to import &#8211; <strong>Trusted Root Certification Authorities<\/strong>.\n  <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/install-root-certificate-in-windows\/install-certificate-wizard-select-store-en.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a cell phone\n\nDescription automatically generated\" title=\"install-certificate-wizard-select-store - How to Install or Import a Root Certificate in Windows\" \/>\n  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/install-root-certificate-in-windows\/install-certificate-wizard-select-store-dialog-en.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a cell phone\n\nDescription automatically generated\" title=\"install-certificate-wizard-select-store-dialog - How to Install or Import a Root Certificate in Windows\" \/>\n  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n    Then just continue the proposed steps of the wizard.\n  <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/install-root-certificate-in-windows\/install-certificate-wizard-store-trusted-root-certification-authorities-en.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a cell phone\n\nDescription automatically generated\" title=\"install-certificate-wizard-store-Trusted Root Certification Authorities - How to Install or Import a Root Certificate in Windows\" \/>\n  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/install-root-certificate-in-windows\/install-certificate-wizard-finish-en.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a computer\n\nDescription automatically generated\" title=\"install-certificate-wizard-finish - How to Install or Import a Root Certificate in Windows\" \/>\n  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n    As a result, you need to confirm the installation of our certificate.\n  <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/install-root-certificate-in-windows\/install-certificate-security-confirmation-en.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a computer\n\nDescription automatically generated\" title=\"install-certificate-security-confirmation - How to Install or Import a Root Certificate in Windows\" \/>\n  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/data\/content\/post\/solutions\/install-root-certificate-in-windows\/install-certificate-success-en.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a cell phone\n\nDescription automatically generated\" title=\"install-certificate-success - How to Install or Import a Root Certificate in Windows\" \/>\n  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n  Now\u00a0all\u00a0is done. Websites and programs authenticated by this root certificate will now work fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Root certificates are public-key certificates that help your system determine if a website or program is genuine and is based on whether the licensing authority is trusted and whether the digital certificate remains valid. If the digital certificate does not belong to a trusted authority, you will receive an error message in the form \u201cThere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[606,604,605,40],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","tag-certificate-authorities","tag-install","tag-root-certificate","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s-sols.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}