Vault and Certificate Manager in Windows 7

Last week, famous foreign technology bloggers Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera discovered a hidden feature in Windows 7 - Windows Safe. But since Windows 7 Beta, I have been using this feature. Let's first look at where this safe is sacred.

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Safety in Windows 7

According to Microsoft's introduction, this safe is mainly used to store user identity certificates for servers, websites and other programs so that Windows can log in automatically, for example: we are familiar with Alipay and online banking certificates. The certificate manager is automatically called when a certificate is required.

Certificate Manager

At present, the programs I have seen in Windows 7 that can use certificates are:

* Windows Live Messenger< Br>

* Microsoft Word 2007

* Microsoft Outlook 2007

* Windows Explorer(when Accessing network resources)

As shown below, you can see the computer in the menu Username and Windows Live username.

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Certificate Management

In addition, the certificate manager in Windows 7 also provides a backup function, which can be said to be quite practical. How to open the certificate manager? Oh, I forgot to say it. Start - Search - Credential manager. In fact, the function of this stuff is quite a lot, but Microsoft did not provide any instructions for use, it is said that Windows 7 RC will provide.

Backup and Recovery

In fact, this is not a new thing, XP, Vista, but obviously the user interface in Windows 7 is more friendly, More dazzling, such as: the interface when the certificate appears.