I just checked comodo web site and their script does not support Vista yet,
so it's probably a different problem.

mlai: is the problem with thawte's SSL or email cert? I got a little
confused by your post. Do you remember which file format was sent back from
thawte server? .cer or .pfx?

"Michael" <Michael@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A7583964-8676-42AE-9F4E-0F56CBC6142A@microsoft.com...
> same problem for Comodo free email certs
>
> "mlai" wrote:
>
>> Just an observation:
>> I tried obtaining SSL certs with Vista thru Thawte (their free personal
>> email certs). I had to put www.thawte.com in a Trusted Zone and disable
>> protected mode for the trusted zone for it to work. However, when I
>> import
>> the issued certificates, I do not get an option to mark the private key
>> as
>> exportable and consequently, I cannot export the cert for backup and
>> installation on my laptop.
>>
>> If I request the cert from XPSP2 (also IE7), I can mark the cert as
>> exportable and can export the cert in PFX format to be used on another
>> machine. The process is completely identical but it works on XPSP2 but
>> not
>> Vista RTM (I am on x64).
>>
>> Can anybody shed some light on this? It will be a major problem as I
>> will
>> be moving to a pure Vista environment soon for my home network (which has
>> 7
>> machines......)
>>
>> Please help.
>> TIA.
>>