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Password vs fingerprint logon
Hi everybody,
this is my first post here so please don't bitch if I didn't hit the right place for my question
I am having a laptop here (DELL Studio 1735) on which Windows 7 runs in dual boot mode with the (originally) installed Vista, both Home Premium versions and working with the integrated Authentec AES2810 fingerprint reader with no problem.
My question is now, how can I get W7 to the same kind of logon screen, showing both this laptop's only user's password and fingerprint logon icon next to each other, like Vista does it?
In W7 those are different logon screens between which I can only "switch users", as if W7 considers the password logon with <Username> a different account than the fingerprint logon which it calls <Fingerprint>.
When I look into the W7 User Accounts though, there is just one user account, which is an Administrator type, just like in Vista. And in both OS, the fingerprints were registered under the only users account.
How can I tweak W7 like Vista here? Somewhere else I read the tip to do this through secpol.msc, but that exists in the Professional and Ultimate versions only, not HP.
Thanks for your time guys!