Fingerprint reader useless?

Hi! I accidently responded to a year old post, oops, nevertheless, it appears the problem was never addressed, and that was how to make the windows password vanish and only use fingerprint reader to login... This is possible by going to the control panel and selecting user accounts, select me, enter old password and leave new password blank... So I then proceeded to test and put my computer in standby.. When coming out of standby, I was able to swipe the finger, and login to windows... Yae! UHOH, I also found out, that all I had to do, was get the mouse and click on my user name on the login screen, and surprise, the fingerprint reader and request were byspassed and into windows I went.. Anyone know what is going on here?
Fingerprint settings all set in the software, it does ask for finger swipe prior to windows access, but just a mouse click on the user gets right passed it...
I wanted this feature because it is more convenient to swipe finger rathe than enter passwords... I will be leaving computer in standby in many different places momentarily, around many types of individuals, and a simple swipe will save time... I cant be leaving the computer in standby for no more than a half hour unsupervised, just to have some clown go right passed the fingerprint security with a mouse click! Using lenovo t61

 

Any suggestions here? I would be real happy to hear them... Im using windows xp pro on the lenovo t61, just got it today...

 

Hi there!

http://www.petri.co.il/hide_a_user_from_the_welcome_screen_in_windows_xp.htm

this guide will sort you out! (if any of the reg keys are missing you can create them yourself)

I've just tested it out and it looks like its working! I would be careful though - if your reader breaks or for somereason stops accepting your "finger" you will have to prat about F8'ing the startup....

On my T61 (on vista ultimate) once ive logged in using the fingerprint reader the welcome screen defaults to "Swipe Finger", if i want to manually allow user selection i have to select "Switch..." and pick my user

Hope that answers your Q?

 

I'll give it a try, although I'm using Vista:

Go in Fingerprint Software Control Center/Settings/Logon. Select Fingerprint Logon, un-check "Allow to bypass logon using Windows password" and "Allow user selfenroll in logon" if you don't use the user account.
After that click on Details. There you will see 2 or 3 rows:

1. Upek Fingerprint Provider - all should be ON
2. Windows Password Logon
3. Microsoft Smartcard Provider

Double click on nr. 2. Right after the title in the upper field you will see something like {xxxxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx}, where x is numbers and letters. Copy that to clipboard using a text program, because you can't copy it directly, you have to enter it manually. Be sure to copy it just the way it is. Then go to Start/Run and type Regedit. After you enter the Regedit program press Ctrl+F and Paste the {xxxx...} thing. It will find that {xxxx...}. When it does, just delete it. Hit F3. It will find another one. Delete that too. Keep the F3 operation until it finds no more {xxxx...}.

Restart and there you go.

I was a little afraid to try that and I made a back-up of the registry just in case. I found out it works ok and I didn't need the back-up. Now I only have the "Swipe Your Finger" option every time I start Windows.

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On Security tab select Custom Mode or whatever you wish.

 

Why does it matter whether the password box is there if you only use the fingerprint log on? Does it bother you?

 

The fingerprint software/client security software provides your password to windows once you swipe. You do NOT want to clear your windows password.

 

I can see how the logon can be bypassed if you disable entering password. Basically what I want to know is why you want to disable entering password.

You can log on to your computer with fingerprint reader or with password by default. Which.. is normal to me. If your fingerprint reader isn't working you can still log on the normal way. The password box is hurting anything so why get rid of it?

 

I have had the fingerprint reader fail resuming from sleep (hadn’t reboot for a while). Luckily, I was able to log-on with my password. If I didn’t have the option to log-on with a password, I assume I’d have to reboot to get into the computer – and everything I was working on would have been lost.

 

If you are having problems with your fingerprint reader resuming after sleep, make sure you have the proper registry patches applied:

- Change IDLE IRP timing by FPR Driver Registry Patch
- Registry Patch for Windows Vista USB S3 PM Enablement