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Certificate Export Wizard is old and scary

Submitted by zumpiez on January 21, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

When logging in, users may be prompted to back up their certificates. The balloon warns that not doing this may cause permanent loss of data. (I should note that I am not, in fact, using any file system encryption, nor I suspect would most standard users, making this whole task irrelevant.)

Clicking through to this reveals an old and technical wizard. "Base-64 encoded X.509 (.CER)" is not a radio button that should be presented to a non-technical user who has been led to believe that their data is at risk.

1) Do not show this balloon if file system encryption is not in use.
2) Create a "friendly" wizard that adheres to Aero UX guidelines. If these options must exist, hide them away in an advanced screen.

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Discussion (2 comments)

longzheng wrote on January 22, 2009, 4:50am

I was prompted to do one of these backups too and the whole process made no sense to me whatsoever.

Thunderbuck wrote on January 28, 2009, 8:10pm

I'll vote for this even though I think this wizard SHOULD look at least a little scary :-)

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