I lost all my passwords on all my browsers

Anonymous
2020-08-20T02:28:23+00:00

I lost all my passwords on all my browsers with the last Windows update. Every time I try to get support, I am directed to the spot to "save" passwords. They are still there allowing them to be saved. Each time I sign on to a site, I am asked if I want to save. I always say yes, but it still never saves. I had to change all my passwords and write them down because I didn't remember them because they were all saved before that update.  This is annoying, to say the least. Please, don't advise me on how to go into my browser settings and choose to save passwords. I know that. Everyone does.; It doesn't work!

I have been working on getting this fixed since the last update/ I got blocked out of my bank for attempting to use what I thought was my password. 

I wish to opt-out of Windows updates. They only serve to make PC users, annoyed!

Dee

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Security and privacy

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-11-19T12:47:00+00:00

    I think it's just stuff that got automatically scheduled as I added/used  software over the years. 

    When I created a new user, it started from a blank slate with nothing scheduled and it doesn't seem to have hurt me in the slightest.  I don't think any of it is necessary.  I would just delete it all.  If something needs to do something, it can always ask you.  (But I haven't been asked to schedule anything in the two weeks since I did this and everything is working perfectly.) 

    I'm not saying task scheduler is causing the problem, but it would certainly explain how the problem can be fixed for 15 hours and then *while I'm not even using the computer* reappear later. But since the scheduled tasks got deleted at the same time I created a new user, I'm not sure that just deleting the tasks would solve the problem on its own.  What would have been interesting would have been to install the 20H2 update (which solved the problem for most of a day) AND delete the tasks in the task scheduler.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-11-19T16:28:11+00:00

    I got the fix and it didn't help. I posted about that experience.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-19T16:35:57+00:00

    That will likely be my next move, i.e. a new user account. I may also create an entirely new MS account to go along with it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-19T17:26:49+00:00

    Have to use Microsoft for work

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-11-19T18:15:32+00:00

    I'm not sure that creating a new MS account is going to help.  Staying away from your MS account will help. :)

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