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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 12th Apr 2011 23:15
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So i recentley bought this fancy Bloomberg keyboard thats meant for some fancy banking terminal or something. It had a fingerprint scanner, i thought it was neat and rare (on russian market) and i like cool rare hardware (and this one is indeed really cool good quality too made in mexico)

So i wanted to get the fingerprint scanner to work. for that i had to install unneceseary bloomberg softwarte package. So the fingerprint scanner works it shows my fingerprints and stuff but it only works for its own software to acess some stock traiding/banking servers online. I wanted to get this thing to work with windows like instead of a passwork kinda like what many business laptops have. The problem is i need some driver that can gewt this thing to work with windows and i googled stuff but havent found anything so far (the only software i found cost 200 bucks) and i am short on money right now. so i am looking for something free.

Now i was never really interested in biometric hardware and i dont know much about it, but i heard that windows 7 supports buimetric scanners. So does anyone know anything i cound use or help me get this thing to work?

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Posted: 13th Apr 2011 00:02 Edited at: 13th Apr 2011 00:02
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I don't see a whole lot out there. You may need to reverse-engineer the keyboard.

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Posted: 13th Apr 2011 00:06
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well i managed to find out the company that made the scanner. Its from "Authentec" but i still cant find any free win 7 drivers for it

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Microsoft stopped supporting fingerprint readers after Vista. Sometimes you can find a driver, but realistically I think it's only really convenient for logging in your PC, and that's it. I've got a fingerprint scanner on my laptop, I don't even have the driver installed.

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Posted: 13th Apr 2011 06:32
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yeah, well i also had a laptop with a scanner once, which i didnt use. but the laptop turned out to be a piece crap anyway (sadly a $2500 piece of crap) but this keyboard here i found is really cool and high quality, it would just seem like a waste to have a cool keyboard like this and not use the fingerprint scanner.

well I did find the driver for the scanner, which seemes to have unlocked the option of "biometric devices" inside the control panel. sadly that option dosent do anything. It could be because Win 7 dosent support the technology any more.

all i need now is to find a good free piece of software that allows me to intergrade finger scanning into the authentication of my account. There is one piece of software i fopund from some IBM notebook. it sortof works but its way too buggy. other software dosent recognise my device for some reason. so i will keep searching untill i find a good one, then ill post it here in case anyone ever becomes interested this info could help

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Good luck. Most people came to the conclusion that biometric security was still not as convenient as keying in a password was. It was one of those "experimental" things that really didn't take off as well as the producers hoped. Some newer models feature advanced fingerprint scanners (laptops), which are supported by Windows 7.

I saw somewhere that laptops now even have iris scanners built in. I don't know if I'd trust my eye around a laser though.

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Posted: 14th Apr 2011 17:04
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So ive been at this for almost 2 days now. Its so frigging annoying, i downloaded tons of biometric software (windows 7 biometrics dosent even work- MS stopped supporting it) basically for some reason, the driver of the fingerscan part is there, nothing seemes to be wrong with it, but for some reason, most of the software i tried, dosent even see the device. this one lenovo program sees it, but it dosent work and crashes all the time

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Quote: "Microsoft stopped supporting fingerprint readers after Vista."


Is this true? I have a friend with a Win7 laptop and he uses his fingerprint reader all the time.



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Quote: "Is this true? I have a friend with a Win7 laptop and he uses his fingerprint reader all the time."


Most older fingerprint readers have no drivers for Windows 7, and Microsoft's own driver set hasn't done much either because it's not that great.

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Quote: "Is this true? I have a friend with a Win7 laptop and he uses his fingerprint reader all the time.
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all of those notebooks with tochpad drivaers, have their own software that controls them. The win 7 driver, dosent really do anything other than tell you that there is a fingescan and it works. there is notheing in win 7 that lets you register your fingerprins without the use of other software.

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Actually 7 doesn't even have a native fingerprint driver. All Windows 7 can do is recognize that there is a piece of hardware for the registered component, it doesn't actually have a driver for fingerprint scanners.

I don't know if you know this, but your'e wasting your time trying various drivers. You can't use a driver for a different scanner on another one. Find the maker of the keyboard, then search for the proper name and put "driver" after it. You should be able to find it.

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no no. the problem is, i have the driver the device works. but there is no software for it (no free software anyway) that provides the software to have the driver work with the OS. There are some pieces of software out there, but either they are not compatible with my particular scanner, or they dont recognise the scanner for some reason. there is one IBM software that does recognise it and even reads my fingerprints, but its buggy and crashes all the time. and for some reasin, my fingerprints are not good enough for it to register.

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Again, you're using a keyboard that doesn't issue standard software. The software and drivers must match up. I know I use HP Security Essentials or something to that nature for mine in my laptop.

Good luck.

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Posted: 16th Apr 2011 16:25
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Quote: " HP Security Essentials"


from what i gathered, its a microsoft issued antivirus thing. not sure if it supports fingerprint reading tho.

Anyway, maybe its because i am using windows 7 its a new OS, dosent have many drivers, i might have better luck trying to get this scanner to work on XP

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Sorry, it's not HP Security Essentials, that was just a shot into the wind guessing-wise. It's actually called HP ProtectTools, but it only works with HP embedded hardware.

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Yeah. Much of the notebook fingerscanning software i tried dosent even want to install because its ACER only or HP only or stuff. The IBM software installed fine, but one is really buggy, the other cant talk with the scanning hardware driver for some reason. But a lot of the software is compatible with my fingerscan. The thing is, you can decompile these installers, and change some registry codes, to make them install. The thing is, they are all different and i just dont know what to change, i need directions.

i did find one guide, which does that, but for some reason, it ended up not working, and i doubt it would work anyway, but a lot of this laptop software could very well work if you could just remove that "acer only" or "HP only" limitation inside the installers. I just dont know which registry key in the installer to change and to what.

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