April 2018 update broke Chrome browser (Cryptographic Services bug)

Anonymous
2018-08-13T22:50:55+00:00

I updated to the April 2018 version of Win10 a couple months ago. It caused several issues and broke my Chrome browser completely, so I reverted back to the old version. But Microsoft forced another update on me, so I need this issue fixed somehow.

All the googling I've done says Microsoft has "fixed" this issue with the April update breaking Chrome, but I've installed all patches and they clearly haven't, not in my case. Pages simply refuse to load and time out.

I've narrowed the issue down to the "Cryptographic Services" service. If I stop the service, all of the Chrome pages instantly load and I have no issues for about an hour. It seems to be some sort of issue with certificates/SSL.

The problem is the service keeps restarting itself. I've tried setting it to "disabled," tried unchecking the service in System Configuration, nothing works. It always comes back and Chrome breaks. I'm sure there's good reason to keep it running but I'm not going to let Microsoft force me out of my favorite browser/bookmarks/extensions/etc. like this, and I can't keep stopping a service every hour just to browse the web.

So I need a solution please. And something specifically related to fixing the issue with Cryptographic Services preventing SSL on Chrome. I've done all the basic stuff like reinstalling Chrome, checking firewall settings, etc..

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-05-07T13:34:18+00:00

    Did not fix it.  Still broke.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-05-07T13:33:23+00:00

    Will try that.  Thanks.  I did a bunch of registry stuff suggested here and it did not work.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-05-03T21:33:52+00:00

    I stopped it by giving it an account that had no privs, and a bogus username and password. Everything is good until you change out a some hardware, like a new video card.

    You'll find that you can't run anything that needs elevated permissions to do something as trivial as installing a new video driver.

    Something to do with the UAC wrapper and CryptSvc?

    Had to fire up mmc on another machine and tell it to show the services on a remote machine to change it all back to the network user (or what ever it defaults to) without username or password.

    This needs to be fixed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-04-25T07:44:22+00:00

    Well guys i want a answer from microsoft i don't want to touch the registry and all i want a decent answer and sollution from microsoft :P I have it on my developers Edge to so plz microsoft come with a sollution.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-04-24T23:00:12+00:00

    I'm glad it finally worked for you as it did for me.  Indeed it's very strange to edit your registry to solve this problem, but it happens very often! if the problem is in the registry , you have to make changes there. windows don't like to talk about this, that 's  the biggest problem!!

    greetings,

    Will theus

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