Password change: Vivaldi could not unlock your secure key store

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What “worries” me the most about modifying the OS is not the big blunders that make the system unbootable but the tiny “quirks” or inconsistencies are almost impossible to trace down. My modified copy of W10 LTSC-21 has been working perfectly for 5 weeks now. Or had been until 3 days ago when I was greeted with a login screen that said that my password had expired and it was time to change it to a new one! (even though my unattended script said I would get 9999999 autologons)

Ok, I changed it, logged on and, using “Local Users & Groups” changed it back to what it was before the rude interruption and also checked “password never expires”.

But yesterday when I opened up my (chrome-based) browser I got this greeting:

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So apparently the browser can’t verify that i’m who I think I am and so, for my SECURITY ™, it will either open the browser while nuking my user profile (again) OR not open at all. All for my protection. And because I resent that I have no choice, while continuing to use a computer, but to put up with this industry-wide stupidity i’ve had no prior interest it how this browser / OS security-conspiracy works so i’m deeply ignorant as to how it’s configured.

The browser (as part of the conspiracy) tells me that it can’t "unlock the Secure Key Store". Secure Key Store is an abstraction - it tells me nothing useful that helps me troubleshoot. IE: what Windoze file(s), exactly, is the browser checking on startup? File(s) that, i’m guessing, were changed by the Expired Password fiasco. What am I looking for?
 
garlin said:
How to Change Password of Local Account or Microsoft Account in Windows 10
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So if I understand your quote correctly then changing my password back to it's original didn't actually set things "back to the way they were" but, instead, the OS - and now my browser - is considering this a new (admin) user account? And there's no "fixing" this? The damage is done and I just have to rebuild my browser profile? Again. (yes, I have backups but it's an hr's work and there are always losses)

So any idea why the OS would tell me that I had to reset my password?
 
This is a security feature since you performed a password reset and not a self-invoked password change. Otherwise an Administrator could break into anyone's account and have free access to their stored credentials.

You're the same user as before, but your previous certificates and key stores have been cancelled. Which means start over in Vivaldi.
 
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