Login Required After Every Restart

[Wokka wokka Motherfokka]

Every time I restart my computer, I have to login to Steam again. I have the "remember my password" box checked, but it still doesn't remember. I have Steam Guard Mobile Authentication enabled, and I use a VPN for all my network traffic. Do those interfere with persistent login?

[SHIEEET]

AiSatan님이 먼저 게시:

Midnight Fawn님이 먼저 게시:

I had the same issue a while ago, make sure that the service within Services called "Credential Manager" is running, i set the startup on this to Automatic rather than Manual.

One other thing to also check, go into registry and browse to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam

and check that the value for the DWORD key: RememberPassword is set to the number 1

I logged out from steam, set this value to 0, and login in with "remember password" checked, it helped

Helped for me too

[ssfn1]

I was having the same issue and none of the solutions here worked. Months later I accidentally solved the problem by:

- checking "Remember password" / unchecking "Don't save credentials on this pc";
- entering Offline Mode (Steam > Go Offline... > Enter Offline Mode);
- logging out and in again;
- going back to Online Mode (same path).

Now my credentials have finally been saved.

[Silent]

Just dropping by to say that as of yesterday, I started getting exactly the same issue after I used a "Clear download cache" feature. None of the solutions above worked, including online mode, resetting cache, removing userdata etc.

However, in my case I reviewed Steam logs and I noticed that for each login, logs would say "Invalid password" (explains why after multiple restarts I got locked off due to "Too many failed login attempts"). This gave me an idea to just... change my password, and it helped!

Truly a head scratching issue, especially since there is nothing different about my new password compared to the old one when it comes to special characters etc. I am guessing some credentials cache survived all my prior attempts and this finally put a stop to whatever was happening.

[hOnZx]

Silent님이 먼저 게시:

Just dropping by to say that as of yesterday, I started getting exactly the same issue after I used a "Clear download cache" feature. None of the solutions above worked, including online mode, resetting cache, removing userdata etc.

However, in my case I reviewed Steam logs and I noticed that for each login, logs would say "Invalid password" (explains why after multiple restarts I got locked off due to "Too many failed login attempts"). This gave me an idea to just... change my password, and it helped!

Truly a head scratching issue, especially since there is nothing different about my new password compared to the old one when it comes to special characters etc. I am guessing some credentials cache survived all my prior attempts and this finally put a stop to whatever was happening.

This works for me! I had this exact issue after installing a VPN. Thought it was something to do with the VPN even though I have enabled split tunneling. Tried all previous solution to no avail.

Uninstalled the VPNs and reinstalled Steam and did the registry trick and services trick as well to no avail. Changing password resolved the issue. Thank you for the solution!

[angelar]

Silent님이 먼저 게시:

Just dropping by to say that as of yesterday, I started getting exactly the same issue after I used a "Clear download cache" feature. None of the solutions above worked, including online mode, resetting cache, removing userdata etc.

However, in my case I reviewed Steam logs and I noticed that for each login, logs would say "Invalid password" (explains why after multiple restarts I got locked off due to "Too many failed login attempts"). This gave me an idea to just... change my password, and it helped!

Truly a head scratching issue, especially since there is nothing different about my new password compared to the old one when it comes to special characters etc. I am guessing some credentials cache survived all my prior attempts and this finally put a stop to whatever was happening.

Which logs were you checking here for this info?

[Silent]

angelar님이 먼저 게시:

Which logs were you checking here for this info?

It's in connection_log.txt. My issue came back since the time I wrote that post too, guess it's time for another password change.

[Butters Stotch]

Midnight Fawn님이 먼저 게시:

make sure that the service within Services called "Credential Manager" is running, i set the startup on this to Automatic rather than Manual.

Mine was set to "manual". This fixed it for me. Thanks!

[nickg713]

Midnight Fawn님이 먼저 게시:

I had the same issue a while ago, make sure that the service within Services called "Credential Manager" is running, i set the startup on this to Automatic rather than Manual.

One other thing to also check, go into registry and browse to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam

and check that the value for the DWORD key: RememberPassword is set to the number 1

Setting the Credential Manager to automatic in services worked for me, thank you!!!

[Wayne]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.