Thinkpad fingerprint update messed with logon screen

[Pentium3 FTW]

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T400 with Windows 7 professional 32-bit. Previously, my login screen would display a "fingerprint logon" option and my username concurrently. I just finished installing an update for the Lenovo fingerprint software using the Lenovo update utility, and now the logon screen will only display the "fingerprint logon" option until I click on "other credentials" or "switch user". I liked my old login screen better and both a system restore and an attempted re-installation of the old software failed to bring it back.

I would like to know if anyone knows a registry hack or something to keep the giant icon of a finger off my login screen (similar to this one: http://www.blogsdna.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/windows-7-build-7057-login-screen.png), and confined to tiny icons, like these : http://www.blogsdna.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/windows-7-logon-for-windows-xp.jpg with the option of logging on with either a password or the fingerprint reader without any additional clicks.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[brady]

uninstall the software

 

[Pentium3 FTW]

uninstall the software

Tried that already.

 

[aem]

It's part of the utility. You said you have unstalled the software, it still there?

 

[Pentium3 FTW]

I uninstalled the new version and then re-installed an older version which I did not previously have any problems with; now it's all back.

 

[aem]

It all back meaning, the new version came back automatically or the old version installed and looks like a new version? Can you confirm the version of the software to have changed.

 

[Pentium3 FTW]

I have the old version of the software installed but it continues to have the same screwed-up appearance that the new one had. Now it won't even tell me if the fingerprint swipe has been successful anymore; it's just a guess whether the swipe was too short or if the computer froze. I can't believe Lenovo would put out such a piece of garbage.