Where my user certificates are installed when doing it under a windows service

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Hi,

I am trying to add certificates into a certificate store for current logged in user. All these must be done under a service (run with LocalSystem account). The problem I faced is that (although debugged the service source code successfully) when I check the certificate store using MMC (Microsoft management console), none of my certificates could be found. I searched through all the instances of certificate stores (current user, current service and local machine).
I tested the part of code responsible for installing certificates into the intended store, using another normal Windows MFC test application and all the things worked OK!.

The important functions I used in my service are: CertAddcertificateContextToStore and CertOpenStore. I examined the various options for important 'dwFlags' parameter of 'CertOpenStore' function according MSDN, but in no case I did find the certificates. I even checked the MSDN referred paths in the registry, pertinent to certificate store locations.

Thanks