Chromium & Chrome Will Not Save Passwords After 2004 Update

I am having same problem with Edge update 87.0.664.52. However, I have noted in the few thread seen hear something that may be contributing to the problem if not the problem I have two users on my computer Mine as Admin level and another at user level. the admin level works fine. However, the general user does not. Specifically, it will allow you to save the password, and the password appears to be saved if one looks at the settings/password menu. However, when the browser is closed and reopened the passwords are not shown or accessed.  Does this help?

I have found that the problem with saved passwords not being displayed is a corrupt user profile. Once I made myself a new local profile I could access my save passwords without having to sign in to my MS account. I do not know how that would work with a profile that is assigned as a user as my profile is assigned admin. It is worth a try and does not take long to reset up the desktop.

Don

My particular problem/gripe is that all of us are spending our time trying to sort out problems created by MS, rather than by our own actions.

Suggestions are made, and tried, some work some don't.

Surely MS should be offering solutions rather than for their users to waste time  prodding around in the dark trying well intentioned solutions.

I held off installing 20H2 but have now done so. 

A couple of passwords are now randomly saved, but then disappear again.

The 2004 update is the root of the problem.

Does nobody have an inside track to MS?

I am having same problem with Edge update 87.0.664.52. However, I have noted in the few thread seen hear something that may be contributing to the problem if not the problem I have two users on my computer Mine as Admin level and another at user level. the admin level works fine. However, the general user does not. Specifically, it will allow you to save the password, and the password appears to be saved if one looks at the settings/password menu. However, when the browser is closed and reopened the passwords are not shown or accessed.  Does this help?

I have found that the problem with saved passwords not being displayed is a corrupt user profile. Once I made myself a new local profile I could access my save passwords without having to sign in to my MS account. I do not know how that would work with a profile that is assigned as a user as my profile is assigned admin. It is worth a try and does not take long to reset up the desktop.

Don

I am having same problem with Edge update 87.0.664.52. However, I have noted in the few thread seen hear something that may be contributing to the problem if not the problem I have two users on my computer Mine as Admin level and another at user level. the admin level works fine. However, the general user does not. Specifically, it will allow you to save the password, and the password appears to be saved if one looks at the settings/password menu. However, when the browser is closed and reopened the passwords are not shown or accessed.  Does this help?

The task manager fix does not work for me ...

I suppose you're referring to Task Scheduler, which isn't the same as Task Manager.

In what way did this procedure not work? 

• There were no results from the PowerShell command?
• The PowerShell command gave an error? What did it say?
• You couldn't find the task(s) the command referred to?
• You disabled the tasks, but the password retention failure persists?

There are three known causes of the symptoms you describe:

• Scheduled tasks using S4U authentication;
• Deleting Hosted app data on close (fixed, but possibly broken again);
• Interference from third-party security software.

If it's not one of the first two that's causing your problem, then the third is the most likely. I've not seen any reports from affected users where none of these three applies.

The task manager fix does not work for me and I have the same issue, that all my saved passwords disappeared and nothing I do will allow them to be re-saved. As soon as the laptop re-starts the passwords are lost again. I created a password vault using LastPass but even with this option ticked to remain logged in and to log in when I start the browser (I've tried using Chrome and Edge) I still have to sign back into LastPass each time to activate the password vault. It also requires me to sign in to Microsoft Word and Excel (all Office365 products) as well, each time I open them. Yes the only information I can find on any of this is in these forum sites, with everyone passing suggestions to each other, but MS doing absolutely nothing about it..... there must be a way to hold them accountable for an update that they have released. You don't even get the chance these days to view updates before installing them, which at least you could previously do and choose not to install, but now they install without you being allowed to intervene. I've tried uninstalling the recent updates, but it made no difference, so I also tried to restore but it didn't give me any indication of how far back it was going to restore to so I bailed out. You used to be able to select a date to restore from but you can't do that any more either.