Chromium & Chrome Will Not Save Passwords After 2004 Update

Please can I add my frustration - since the so-called upgrade 2004 saved passwords for Outlook and Edge are no longer available or working.

I have spent hours going through various 'workarounds' and other recommended solutions.

I have downloaded MS Support &  Recovery Assistant. Did that solve the problem? Nope.

Why does Microsoft do this to  us??

Why do they issue such an important update and then leave the users to sort out the problems of their making. As we all know this  is not the first time MS have done something like this.

Before upgrade 2004 all my systems were working. 

Please can somebody in MS read this and sort it  out?

Hi ¡Firedog,

Further Update. 

Well I have given up on that profile and created a new one. The old profile was working great till I started Outlook with what was likely a duff profile. So now my old profile is toast. I wish I'd not started Outlook which I only need once in a blue moon on that PC. 

Anyway new profile all setup and configured. I have signed in to Opera, Opera Beta, Chrome and Chrome Canary and OneDrive signed in automatically. 

I'll give it 24 hours then close the Opera's down and restart them and see if they are still signed in.

Hi ¡Firedog,

Found the root cause of the problem with my profile. I started Outlook tonight and it prompted for a password for my main email which I entered. Then it appeared to hang, possibly checking my next email id. At the same time Opera was updating. When Opera restarted sync had lost it's credentials. I had Opera Beta opened too so I closed that and restarted and it too had lost it's sync settings. Google Chrome was and is still fine. So I closed Outlook and deleted that profile since I had another one I could use. Started Outlook and entered passwords for the accounts who's passwords had changed since I last used that profile and it worked fine. So I signed in to sync in Opera ... closed it ... started it and sync was still okay. Closed and Opened Outlook and it logged in fine. Then there were updates for Update Tuesday so I applied them and rebooted. Opera was still signed in to sync and working fine. I started Outlook and closed and reopened Opera and sync was still fine. 

Conclusion. It was a corrupted Outlook profile that only showed it's corruption on 2004. On 1909 that Outlook profile did occasionally hang, so really I should have ditched that profile months ago.

Thank you Don. You too.

I am so glad that you were helped and that the problem was found and should be easy to correct. I had a feeling that with my making a new profile back in early August was what fixed mine. The way I found I had a corrupt profile was that one day I noticed I could not use the search bar within the Settings App. I could type in the search bar what I wanted to find but it would not expand on where I could find it so I could click on it. It would just sit with the dots going by and come up with subject not found. I also noticed that when I signed into my computer it would bypass the lock screen many times and go straight to the sign in screen. I made a new profile with admin privileges and sure enough everything worked as it should so with a little work I got my desktop set back up under the new profile and deleted the old one once I did. I did notice at one time that MS Store was having problems under the new profile like MS Store scan failure errors and not updating Apps so what I did was reinstall and re-register MS Store using Admin Powershell using the command below so be on the lookout for that little problem. Now MS Store works like a charm.

Get-AppXPackage *Microsoft.WindowsStore* | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}

I still think MS did something to the system security with the 2004 update and just to mention there were quite a few users including me that kept getting push notifications that there were problems with our accounts and when you clicked on message you would be taken to shared Experiences in Settings to reenter your MS Account password.  I no longer get that message now.

I am glad you found the problem and on your way to get things back to the way they were. Have a great week and nice to have met you.

Cheers