I have a Surface Pro 5 with a Windows Hello camera that wasn't working and I wasn't able to fix it. Looked like I'd need to do a reset to fix the drivers, so instead I decided to give 2004 a try, hoping the update would refresh the camera drives. Indeed this worked, but I've been having a lot of problems since the update: Seems like all sorts of applications and OS features won't remember my username/passwords anymore. Every time I log in I have to sign into both one drive personal and one drive business. Outlook keeps asking me to log into my office365 every few hours. Acrobat keeps asking for my Adobe login every time a load a pdf if I haven't done so in a few hours. Settings periodically makes me fix my insider account configuration by re-authenticating with Hello Lastpass extention in Firefox keeps asking me to enter my password despite being configured to only require a fingeprint (it first asks me for my fingerprint, but then also asks for the password) probably some stuff I can't recall right now. I wasn't having any of these issues before the update. I tried following Lastpass's support advice to fix it by reinstalling the extension and resetting several settings but this didn't help. It's possible these are all individual issues, but since it seems to be an issue with remembering credentials across a variety of applications, I'm suspecting it's a system wide issue and maybe not specific to these applications. I checked that the credential manager service is running. It was set to manual. I changed it to automatic and rebooted but this didn't seem to help. Anyone have an idea what could be going on here? Thanks!

Update 2/8/21 This issue has been fixed by Windows in this Windows 10 update, February 2, 2021—KB4598291 (OS Builds 19041.789 and 19042.789) Preview (microsoft.com) . Addresses an issue in which using local Service for User (S4U) affects Data Protection API (DPAPI) credential keys and causes users to sign out unexpectedly. I am updating the Outlook Known Issue article to reflect the same, Outlook and other apps won't remember password after Windows Updates - Outlook (microsoft.com) .

Issue resolved in KB4601319 monthly update. If you continue to hit the issue, let us know. February 2, 2021—KB4598291 (OS Builds 19041.789 and 19042.789) Preview (microsoft.com) Addresses an issue in which using local Service for User (S4U) affects Data Protection API (DPAPI) credential keys and causes users to sign out unexpectedly.

For a couple of days I thought this problem was gone because I made many test reboots without Credential Amnesia, but now the problem is back. Unfortunately, my 10 days to go back the previous version of Windows expired while I thought the problem was solved. What I did to "fix" it the first time: Uninstalled programs I wasn't using because they might conflict. Ran sfc /scannow which reported no errors Ran Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth Deleted all credentials and let them be recreated by the Credential Manager Everything works as long as I don't reboot. Sporadically (not always) after reboots, OneDrive needs its password re-entered and all of my Outlook 2019 email passwords need to be re-entered. I'm now trying disabling the startup of various programs to see if any cause the problem. Painful.

Johnny, Thanks for the recommendations. The sequence: sfc /scannow Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth fixed my issue too. My guess is that "sfc /scannow" was not needed since it reported NO errors. Len

Well that was a lengthly process... :-) After I reinstalled Windows, I added some credentials to the Credential Manager and then installed one program. Rebooted the PC and checked whether the credentials were still there. After installing MSI Dragon Center, the credentials started to vanish after a reboot. I removed the program, installed the rest of the system and have been using it for several days, without any credentials gone missing. In the past (on Windows 10 1909) I did run into a similiar issues as yours: Outlook would ask me to enter the passwords of some of my e-mail accounts. Specifically those tied to my Microsoft accounts. At some point Windows would also start complaining that there is something wrong with those MS accounts. I manged to solve that by deleting all Office 365-related entries in the Credential Manager and entering the passwords in Outlook/Windows again. First that did not work, but I think Microsoft updated either something in Windows or Office 365 that resolved the issue after several attempts.

Systemwide password amnesia (v2004 build 19041.173)

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I have a Surface Pro 5 with a Windows Hello camera that wasn't working and I wasn't able to fix it. Looked like I'd need to do a reset to fix the drivers, so instead I decided to give 2004 a try, hoping the update would refresh the camera drives. Indeed this worked, but I've been having a lot of problems since the update:

Seems like all sorts of applications and OS features won't remember my username/passwords anymore.

Every time I log in I have to sign into both one drive personal and one drive business.
Outlook keeps asking me to log into my office365 every few hours.
Acrobat keeps asking for my Adobe login every time a load a pdf if I haven't done so in a few hours.
Settings periodically makes me fix my insider account configuration by re-authenticating with Hello
Lastpass extention in Firefox keeps asking me to enter my password despite being configured to only require a fingeprint (it first asks me for my fingerprint, but then also asks for the password)
probably some stuff I can't recall right now.

I wasn't having any of these issues before the update.

I tried following Lastpass's support advice to fix it by reinstalling the extension and resetting several settings but this didn't help.

It's possible these are all individual issues, but since it seems to be an issue with remembering credentials across a variety of applications, I'm suspecting it's a system wide issue and maybe not specific to these applications.

I checked that the credential manager service is running. It was set to manual. I changed it to automatic and rebooted but this didn't seem to help.

Anyone have an idea what could be going on here?

Thanks!

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Update 2/8/21

This issue has been fixed by Windows in this Windows 10 update, February 2, 2021—KB4598291 (OS Builds 19041.789 and 19042.789) Preview (microsoft.com).

Addresses an issue in which using local Service for User (S4U) affects Data Protection API (DPAPI) credential keys and causes users to sign out unexpectedly.

I am updating the Outlook Known Issue article to reflect the same, Outlook and other apps won't remember password after Windows Updates - Outlook (microsoft.com).

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Issue resolved in KB4601319 monthly update. If you continue to hit the issue, let us know.

February 2, 2021—KB4598291 (OS Builds 19041.789 and 19042.789) Preview (microsoft.com)

Addresses an issue in which using local Service for User (S4U) affects Data Protection API (DPAPI) credential keys and causes users to sign out unexpectedly.

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2020-06-19T19:24:39+00:00

For a couple of days I thought this problem was gone because I made many test reboots without Credential Amnesia, but now the problem is back. Unfortunately, my 10 days to go back the previous version of Windows expired while I thought the problem was solved.

What I did to "fix" it the first time:

Uninstalled programs I wasn't using because they might conflict.

Ran sfc /scannow which reported no errors

Ran Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Deleted all credentials and let them be recreated by the Credential Manager

Everything works as long as I don't reboot. Sporadically (not always) after reboots, OneDrive needs its password re-entered and all of my Outlook 2019 email passwords need to be re-entered.

I'm now trying disabling the startup of various programs to see if any cause the problem. Painful.
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2020-06-19T15:36:24+00:00

Johnny,

Thanks for the recommendations.

The sequence:

sfc /scannow

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

fixed my issue too.

My guess is that "sfc /scannow" was not needed since it reported NO errors.

Len
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2020-06-17T19:03:17+00:00

Well that was a lengthly process... :-)

After I reinstalled Windows, I added some credentials to the Credential Manager and then installed one program. Rebooted the PC and checked whether the credentials were still there.

After installing MSI Dragon Center, the credentials started to vanish after a reboot.

I removed the program, installed the rest of the system and have been using it for several days, without any credentials gone missing.

In the past (on Windows 10 1909) I did run into a similiar issues as yours: Outlook would ask me to enter the passwords of some of my e-mail accounts. Specifically those tied to my Microsoft accounts. At some point Windows would also start complaining that there is something wrong with those MS accounts. I manged to solve that by deleting all Office 365-related entries in the Credential Manager and entering the passwords in Outlook/Windows again.

First that did not work, but I think Microsoft updated either something in Windows or Office 365 that resolved the issue after several attempts.
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