Ernie,
Which “Update version” of Win-10 are you running on
(perhaps # 2004 ?).
With deference and due respect to Bill Long, I have
recently started having “system-erased password” problems connecting to the ISP,
using my old Live Mail program, now periodically asking for my password on
Win-10 Reboot, possibly under other situations repeating at a later time,
after I provide the same password again. Seemed to pop up at random during the
day even without reboot, and reduced as I started eliminating suspect
apps. Never did that in the past. Something has changed in that wonderful
update’s improvements, and I have been chasing the new culprit on a few
PC’s besides mine, for over a month.
Check the location (or settings), where your password is
“supposed to have been stored”, to see if it is now blank, until you
respond with it again and it gets automatically refilled there. Maybe your
situation is similar.
Windows Control Panel- User Accounts – Credentials
is supposed to remember a specified password for some Application(s) and visited
websites, which you can check by giving your Win-10 login password to open the
hidden ones.
Or for your “named WiFi network”, check for the password under Network
& Sharing Center – the Wireless Properties tab (for that WiFi
network), in the Security tab, to see if it got erased. However, the
latter has been untouched on my system, so far.
