Monday 28 May 2018

Windows 7 Chrome View Password Manager Vault Crashes Windows Password

When trying to view a saved chrome password in the chrome password manager

chrome://settings/passwords

we are prompted to enter our windows password in a normal windows message box, but in that box when we enter the correct password or click cancel, the whole chrome crashes.

After a lot of searching I found that the solution was to create a shortcut for chrome and launch it with flag / option

 --disable-features=CredUIPromptForWindowsCredentials

in the shortcut target

This caused a different popup window to come up for the password, and this one actually works

I hope this helps someone else