{"id":1406,"date":"2014-03-31T13:08:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T17:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insidethe.com\/blog\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2014-03-31T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T17:08:54","slug":"removing-an-existing-code-signing-certificate-from-a-exe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidethe.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/removing-an-existing-code-signing-certificate-from-a-exe\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing an Existing Code Signing Certificate from a EXE"},"content":{"rendered":"

While trying to sign an EXE file with my code signing certificate SignTool kept failing with this error:<\/p>\n

SignTool Error: SignedCode::Sign returned error: 0x800700C1
\nEither the file being signed or one of the DLL specified by \/j switch is not a valid Win32 application.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The error was a result of the EXE being already signed.<\/p>\n

Someone wrote a tool called delcert.exe which can easily remove existing code signatures. The tool is available for download from the XDA Developers Forum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While trying to sign an EXE file with my code signing certificate SignTool kept failing with this error: SignTool Error: SignedCode::Sign returned error: 0x800700C1 Either the file being signed or one of the DLL specified by \/j switch is not a valid Win32 application. The error was a result of the EXE being already signed. 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