Acer Fingerprint Reader Driver  

Hi,

I have an Acer 5942G and recently had to reinstall Windows 7 Home Premium. This of course meant reinstalling all the drivers. All of them so far have installed without a hitch, except for one.

My laptop has a fingerprint reader, so I downloaded the drivers from here

Acer | Download

However when I go to install it the installsheild wizard just seems to hang on the "Acer Bio Protection is configuring your new software installation" part. It just stays like that forever, I even left it for just over an hour and nothing.



It is extremely frustrating and I cant seem to fix it no matter what I do. My "FingerPrinter Reader" does go from an unregognized device in Device Manager to "Secure Biometric Device", but that is all it seems to do.

Can anyone offer a solution?

Thanks

Well I have installed all the right ones for my GPU, card read etc, but for my fingerprint reader I used the only one listed

"Fingerprint EGISTEC Fingerprint Driver 6.2.56"

I have installed the Launch manager that is listed under "Applications", I have also installed the Intel Chipset drivers

These are the only drivers and applications listed for my laptop

Did you have any luck?

If anyone could help me solve this issue it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Success!

So I have no idea now this worked, but it did. I decided to try and burn all the files in the downloaded zip file (including the .exe) to a DVD and try to run it from there. Surprisingly it worked and I can now login with my finger like before, I only hope that the same issue doesn't occur in the future with other installations.