Disabling certificate revocation checking for an application on Windows

Question

I have a .NET 3.5 desktop application that had been showing periodic slow downs in functionality whenever the test machine it was on was out of the office.
I managed to

Answer 1

You can specify in code if you want to check the revocation list per application:

ServicePointManager.CheckCertificateRevocationList = false;

Answer 2

In this blog posting (which cites another source) you have two options: disable CRL checking system wide or per app:

Disable CRL Checking Machine-Wide Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> Under security, uncheck the Check for publisher's certificate revocation option

Disable CRL Checking For a Specific .Net Application See this Microsoft KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936707