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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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I believe that Microsoft are glad about this because they don't want people to use Chrome. There will never be an official fix. Whether it was intentional on their part or not I cannot say. All I can say is that they make me sick.
The new version of Edge will be Chromium based.
I believe that Microsoft are glad about this because they don't want people to use Chrome. There will never be an official fix. Whether it was intentional on their part or not I cannot say. All I can say is that they make me sick.
Did not fix it. Still broke.
Will try that. Thanks. I did a bunch of registry stuff suggested here and it did not work.
Had the same issue with Chrome hanging on secure connection. I typed services.msc at the admin command prompt.
Go to Cryptographic services, right click to properties, and in the "Log on" tab, change the setting to local account. Restarted and Chrome was good as ever.
