Windows 10: Cannot Access Privacy Settings due to Browser Crash

Dear Microsoft Team,


I was absent from home last week. After I returned this Sunday evening September 13, 2020 my Windows was updated when switching off the computer I run WIndows 10.


The next day I imediately noticed that my microphone wasn't working anymore. After some research I found out that there is a bug which already occured in 2018. According to the description, the update changed the privacy settings so that my apps cannot use my microphone.


When I tried to access the privacy settings I noticed that my browser crashes if I select privacy settings in the left bar for most of the options anyway. I tried a workaround which I found here: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2018/01/11/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-17074-pc/ by running the elevated command prompt: "reg.exe add HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionCapabilityAccessManagerConsentStoremicrophone /v Value /d Allow /f". After I corrected the command prompt by changing to "reg add" and inserting backslashes, I received the message that the operation was successful. However the problem persisted.


Please give helpful advice how to solve the problem.


Greetings,


Aidan

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Privacy Settings Not Working

Hi Mahrin,

You may be having a hard time in accessing the website because of the browser you are using. Kindly answer the following questions so we can help you in resolving the problem:

• What browser do you use to access your Xbox account on the web?
• Do you get a specific error code when you open the privacy settings link?
  
• Did the problem start after applying changes on the PC?

If you are using Windows browsers to access the website, see if deleting the browser history will allow you to open the privacy settings page. Doing this will clear the stored Internet data that may be preventing you from accessing certain websites. Refer
to these links to delete the browser history for Windows browsers:

• View and delete browser history in Microsoft Edge
• View and delete your browsing history in Internet Explorer

It will also give us more information about the issue if you try signing in to your Xbox account and going to the privacy settings page using a different browser.

Let us know how it turns out.

Regards.

 

cant open privacy settings

Hi Sean,

There are several possible explanations as to why you're encountering issues with accessing your Xbox account's privacy settings. Here's a list of the common factors:

• There's an ongoing Xbox Live server outage.
• You're using a child account which needs a parent permission in order to change the privacy settings.
  
• Access to Xbox Live is not yet available to your location.

For us to determine the root cause of this issue, kindly answer the following questions:

• Are you using a child or a parent account?
• Have you made any changes to your Xbox account before encountering this issue?
• Have you tried using a different web browser to access your account's privacy settings?
• Are you encountering the same issue when accessing your account's privacy settings on a different device like an Xbox console?