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    Couple questions on Fingerprints/Win8

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by takeabyte, Sep 19, 2011.

  1. takeabyte

    takeabyte Notebook Evangelist

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    Morning all,

    Just wanted to know if anybody knows about a fingerprint password manager that works with Win7 x64? I've been googling, and I saw one guy had success with DigitalPersona, but that program doesn't work for me (doesn't recognize the X220's fp reader). I saw Authentec has a win7 version, but has anybody used it?

    Also, any adventerous folks install the Windows 8 dev preview? I tried and failed, 100% of the time it would freeze before I even got a chance to choose an OS :( Formatted yesterday and back in Windows 7 :p
     
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  2. grisjuan

    grisjuan Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm dual-booting Win7 Ultimate and Win8 Developer Preview on my x220, and it works fine so far (no fingerprint reader on the x220).

    I also installed Win8 Developer Preview on my old x200s and it worked there as well (here I do have a fingerprint reader, but have not tried to get it working).
     
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  3. takeabyte

    takeabyte Notebook Evangelist

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    I doubt this would have anything to do with it, but did you install Win8 via USB or DVD? Thx for the reply! :)
     
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    I mounted the .iso file using Virtual Clone Drive.
     
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