Microsoft explains what an “S4U” task is in more detail here, but the long story short is that it allows the computer to run tasks as a local system account.

Unearthed by TechDows, a user commented on a Chromium thread to point out that an “S4U” task in the Windows Task Scheduler seems to cause Chrome to dump passwords and other data. Luckily, a new workaround has appeared that seems to fix the problem as well as revealing its potential source. Some users are still encountering issues on the latest versions of Windows while using Chrome and it seems that Google and Microsoft have no clear solution in sight.

Update 10/12: Nearly four months after we first reported on this problem, it’s still happening. A Chromium bug report from April details Google’s knowledge of the problem, and a full two months later the company is still investigating the problem. With that, websites treat that Chrome browser as a fresh install, asking users to sign in every time they reboot their machine.Īs pointed out by TechDows, Google has actually been aware of these issues with Chrome since before the Windows 10 May update was released. This doesn’t affect bookmarks but it would affect the data you back up to your Google account for the sake of syncing to smartphones or other computers.įurther, and perhaps most annoyingly, this issue is also deleting cookies off of the machine. As an unfortunate side effect of the May 2020 Windows 10 update, some users have reported notable issues with the Google Chrome browser.įollowing an update to Windows 10’s May 2020 version, some users across Reddit and Google’s Help Forums have noted that the browser has stopped syncing and reverts to a signed-out state upon a reboot. In May 2020, Microsoft released its latest significant update for Windows 10.

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