Digital Signature

I am not sure if this is an Excel or a Windows question.

Can anyone tell me how you can remove a signature from the signature dialog
box after creating one via SelfCert.exe?

I don't mean remove it from the excel file I mean from the choice of
signature dialog box you are presented with when attaching a signature to a
spreadsheet.

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Regards


Sandy
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Sandy Mann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...>I am not sure if this is an
Excel or a Windows question.
>
> Can anyone tell me how you can remove a signature from the signature
> dialog box after creating one via SelfCert.exe?
>
> I don't mean remove it from the excel file I mean from the choice of
> signature dialog box you are presented with when attaching a signature to
> a spreadsheet.
>


I guess that's a no then :-(

Out of interest what happened was that at work we had a Windows 2000 server
that the company that does out IT decided to upgrade to 2003, (and possibly
other things?).

Anyway after they had done whatever they did I found that the digital
signature that I had previously created no longer worked. I created another
one and was able to re-sign my projects with that one but it has left me
with two signatures - one of which works and one that doesn't and I would
like to get rid of the one that doesn't work. It would be no use asking
this company that did the upgrade because I would just get the answer - as I
have had before - that they do not do *Applications* only systems,

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HTH

Sandy
[email protected]
[email protected] with @tiscali.co.uk
"> --
> Regards
>
>
> Sandy
> [email protected]
> [email protected] with @tiscali.co.uk
>

Sandy

The selfcert signature can be removed from your computer through the
Windows Management Maintenance Console.

Start>Run "mmc"(no quotes)>File>Add/Remove Snap-in.

Add>Certificates>Current User>Add>OK

After the Certificates Snap-in loads expand it and click on
"Personal".

Delete any you don't want from the list.

This KB article is for Windows 2000 server, but I found it works for
Windows
XP.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;310389


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:47:04 -0000, "Sandy Mann"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Sandy Mann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...>I am not sure if this is an
>Excel or a Windows question.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how you can remove a signature from the signature
>> dialog box after creating one via SelfCert.exe?
>>
>> I don't mean remove it from the excel file I mean from the choice of
>> signature dialog box you are presented with when attaching a signature to
>> a spreadsheet.
>>
>
>
>I guess that's a no then :-(
>
>Out of interest what happened was that at work we had a Windows 2000 server
>that the company that does out IT decided to upgrade to 2003, (and possibly
>other things?).
>
>Anyway after they had done whatever they did I found that the digital
>signature that I had previously created no longer worked. I created another
>one and was able to re-sign my projects with that one but it has left me
>with two signatures - one of which works and one that doesn't and I would
>like to get rid of the one that doesn't work. It would be no use asking
>this company that did the upgrade because I would just get the answer - as I
>have had before - that they do not do *Applications* only systems,

Thank you very much Gord. I will get on to it at work tomorrow.

--
Regards


Sandy
[email protected]
[email protected] with @tiscali.co.uk

"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Sandy
>
> The selfcert signature can be removed from your computer through the
> Windows Management Maintenance Console.
>
> Start>Run "mmc"(no quotes)>File>Add/Remove Snap-in.
>
> Add>Certificates>Current User>Add>OK
>
> After the Certificates Snap-in loads expand it and click on
> "Personal".
>
> Delete any you don't want from the list.
>
> This KB article is for Windows 2000 server, but I found it works for
> Windows
> XP.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;310389
>
>
> Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:47:04 -0000, "Sandy Mann"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Sandy Mann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...>I am not sure if this is an
>>Excel or a Windows question.
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me how you can remove a signature from the signature
>>> dialog box after creating one via SelfCert.exe?
>>>
>>> I don't mean remove it from the excel file I mean from the choice of
>>> signature dialog box you are presented with when attaching a signature
>>> to
>>> a spreadsheet.
>>>
>>
>>
>>I guess that's a no then :-(
>>
>>Out of interest what happened was that at work we had a Windows 2000
>>server
>>that the company that does out IT decided to upgrade to 2003, (and
>>possibly
>>other things?).
>>
>>Anyway after they had done whatever they did I found that the digital
>>signature that I had previously created no longer worked. I created
>>another
>>one and was able to re-sign my projects with that one but it has left me
>>with two signatures - one of which works and one that doesn't and I would
>>like to get rid of the one that doesn't work. It would be no use asking
>>this company that did the upgrade because I would just get the answer - as
>>I
>>have had before - that they do not do *Applications* only systems,
>

Hi Gord,

Just a follow up to the info you provided. The link was re-directed to:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=gp;[ln];kberror&style=error

which said that the KB article was not available but that they knew about
it.

It didn't matter because the instructions that you gave were more than
enough for me to be able to delete the unwanted signature.

I had stupidly created two signatures exactly the same because I thought
that the new one would overwrite the old one but I just ended up with two
indistinguishable signatures - thus my quest to delete the non-working one.

Thank again for going to so much trouble.
--

Sandy
[email protected]
[email protected] with @tiscali.co.uk


"Sandy Mann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:%[email protected]...
> Thank you very much Gord. I will get on to it at work tomorrow.
>
> --
> Regards
>
>
> Sandy
> [email protected]
> [email protected] with @tiscali.co.uk
>
> "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Sandy
>>
>> The selfcert signature can be removed from your computer through the
>> Windows Management Maintenance Console.
>>
>> Start>Run "mmc"(no quotes)>File>Add/Remove Snap-in.
>>
>> Add>Certificates>Current User>Add>OK
>>
>> After the Certificates Snap-in loads expand it and click on
>> "Personal".
>>
>> Delete any you don't want from the list.
>>
>> This KB article is for Windows 2000 server, but I found it works for
>> Windows
>> XP.
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;310389
>>
>>
>> Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:47:04 -0000, "Sandy Mann"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>Sandy Mann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>news:[email protected]...>I am not sure if this is an
>>>Excel or a Windows question.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me how you can remove a signature from the signature
>>>> dialog box after creating one via SelfCert.exe?
>>>>
>>>> I don't mean remove it from the excel file I mean from the choice of
>>>> signature dialog box you are presented with when attaching a signature
>>>> to
>>>> a spreadsheet.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I guess that's a no then :-(
>>>
>>>Out of interest what happened was that at work we had a Windows 2000
>>>server
>>>that the company that does out IT decided to upgrade to 2003, (and
>>>possibly
>>>other things?).
>>>
>>>Anyway after they had done whatever they did I found that the digital
>>>signature that I had previously created no longer worked. I created
>>>another
>>>one and was able to re-sign my projects with that one but it has left me
>>>with two signatures - one of which works and one that doesn't and I would
>>>like to get rid of the one that doesn't work. It would be no use asking
>>>this company that did the upgrade because I would just get the answer -
>>>as I
>>>have had before - that they do not do *Applications* only systems,
>>
>
>

Thanks for update on the busted link.

I'll leave it out of any postings in future.


Gord

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:31:42 -0000, "Sandy Mann" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Hi Gord,
>
>Just a follow up to the info you provided. The link was re-directed to:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default...or&style=error
>
>which said that the KB article was not available but that they knew about
>it.
>
>It didn't matter because the instructions that you gave were more than
>enough for me to be able to delete the unwanted signature.
>
>I had stupidly created two signatures exactly the same because I thought
>that the new one would overwrite the old one but I just ended up with two
>indistinguishable signatures - thus my quest to delete the non-working one.
>
>Thank again for going to so much trouble.

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP