Chromium & Chrome Will Not Save Passwords After 2004 Update

 - since the so-called upgrade 2004 saved passwords for Outlook and Edge are no longer available or working.

I'll say again: problems with retaining sensitive data written to disk are often caused by third-party security software, which has to be adapted to every change in the operating system. Providers of this sort of software are not always quick to adapt their offerings in response to major platform updates. Since only some users are affected by the problem you're facing, its cause must lie with the hardware or (most probably) software configuration of the affected machines.

I would start by disabling any third-party security program to see if there's any improvement, followed by complete uninstallation of the software if things don't get better. 

Both of the other posters in this thread complained of the same problem with retaining credentials within the browser, both are using third-party security software, and both suffered a corruption of their user profiles on upgrading to Windows 10 v.2004. Are you perhaps in the same boat?

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.