Chromium & Chrome Will Not Save Passwords After 2004 Update

Thank you for your response.

Clearly you are an IT expert.

I'm afraid there are zillions of us out here who are not, who just want to get on with their business and not spend hours fruitlessly trying to figure out why all of a sudden parts of their IT system stops working.

I fail to understand why I have to sort out this problem caused by a so called "update" in this case 2004.

I try all the recommended routes - none of which work - including yours to disable third party anti virus software (all the good books recommend good third party software and not to rely just on MS).

Surely Microsoft should make sure its upgrades work before releasing them and don't cause untold problems?

Surely Microsoft should have some system to help those of us who are not  IT wizards, just ordinary folk?

I'm facing this same issue and its been 9 days since I updated to 2004 version. It's a headache to log in again and again. I wonder when Microsoft will fix these issues.

I am just wondering if anyone has heard if this issue has been resolve. I watch various videos on YouTube concerning the "2004" update where they discuss issues that have been resolved but none of them address this specific issue.  I am very hesitant to try updating again.  I did it twice and both times I had to revert to 1909 due to the memorized passwords issue.

I am just wondering if anyone has heard if this issue has been resolve. I watch various videos on YouTube concerning the "2004" update where they discuss issues that have been resolved but none of them address this specific issue.  I am very hesitant to try updating again.  I did it twice and both times I had to revert to 1909 due to the memorized passwords issue.

The only way that I have found and I discovered this quite by accident was to make myself a new computer sign in account. I started to noticed over time that since updating to 2004 in June, and I restarted my HP Omen Obelisk computer or bring it out of sleep it would automatically go to the sign in screen and just bypass the lock screen at times. I also noticed one day in early August that I could not search on a topic in Settings as it would just sit there with the little dots going by and eventually it would say nothing was found. I did the whole SFC and DISM routine and rebuilding the Index etc etc.  I thought to myself that I must have a corrupt profile. What I did was create a whole new profile to check and sure enough I could use Settings search with no problem and just by chance I thought I would check Edge passwords and there they were and I was not even signed in to Edge and I restart my computer every week. I did not even use Edge and I uninstalled Chrome because of the password problem as I was not about to sign in to either one of my accounts so MS and Google could see my web activities. I always use Firefox as my default and I installed IceDragon 64 bit as my backup plus I also have TOR and Edge I keep in start up and sometimes I use it.  I went ahead and set up my new sign in account which was back in August with everything I was using in my  other account. I guess it took several hours to get my new account where I wanted it and when I did I deleted my old account and to this day Edge password are still there without signing in to MS and I can still use Settings search. Just this past week I made my wife a new sign in account on her HP Envy laptop as she had been experiencing the same thing with lock screen bypassing. Everything is running great now and her Edge passwords are now visible without having to sign in as well. I believe something happened to members profiles when 2004 was installed or with one of the update fixes to the 2004 bugs. I know it may sound extreme to make a new profile and such but it really was not bad doing so and it gave one a chance to put some thought into what one wanted in the new profile and such. There are lots of excellent websites that will guide you on how to do it. Your store apps that you have downloaded will be there waiting for you to redownload and of course you will need to redo your preferences in Settings. If you decide to go that route and you have deleted your old profile and you have all your store Apps in your new profile and happy with everything I strongly recommend that you re-register Microsoft Store   https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8239-re-register-microsoft-store-app-windows-10-a.html . It seems to have a little problem with new profiles and BTW you do not have to create a new MS account. Good luck.

Cheers ,

Don

I am just wondering if anyone has heard if this issue has been resolve. 

One possible cause of the fault has been identified. Some users who were seeing a failure to sign in at intervals discovered that it could be traced to scheduled tasks set up to run without asking the user for credentials (a mechanism known as S4U). Apparently, a change in Windows 2004 to part of this authentication procedure led to the saved credentials being deleted when the task was triggered, frustrating future authentication attempts using the same procedure.

Affected users can check whether this is the reason why their sign-ins are failing by running a PowerShell script to identify any scheduled task that uses S4U:

1. Copy this black line:

Get-ScheduledTask | foreach { If ((xml).GetElementsByTagName("LogonType").'#text' -eq "S4U") { $_.TaskName } } 2. Type powershell into the Windows search box. When the result Windows PowerShell | app appears, click on its Run as administrator option. 3. When the prompt appears, press Ctrl-V to paste the command and press Enter.

Wait for the command to complete. If there are any tasks using S4U, they will be listed; otherwise, the prompt will reappear without anything being listed.

If any such task is located, the user should open Task Scheduler and edit the task ("Do not store password") or disable it as appropriate. 

Signing in to Windows with a different user account should prevent these tasks from running ...