Have you had your fingerprints taken?
Quite a few customers have been trying to use the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader with their Embedded runtimes, or create a componentized version of the driver. Componentizing this driver is quite a challenge – one we have hopefully alleviated for you.
We tackled the task of creating a component for you, which can be downloaded from here. As we do not own the binaries that ship with this hardware device we cannot include them in a repository with our version of the component, but the binaries are available to customers if they accept the End User Agreement when they download the driver files from here.
To use this component to enable the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader on an Embedded runtime, first download and install the driver on a development machine. Then:
1. Import the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader (Beta).sld into your database.
2. An empty repository folder for this component will be created under \Windows Embedded Data\Repositories- {4CC5FA1C-2EDE-4591-9F3B-16FDCF470E4F}
3. Copy the driver files from the installation of the Fingerprint Reader on your dev machine (\Program Files\ DigitalPersona\ Bin) into your repositories folder.
3a. This list of files is in the REP folder readme.txt
4. Open Target Designer, import your PMQ and add the “Microsoft Fingerprint Reader” component to your runtime.
5. Run check dependencies. Resolve any dependencies for the runtime as per usual.
6. Build and deploy.
Notes:
• To use the scanner to log onto windows, offline files need to be disabled and Fast User Switching needs to be enabled. This component is already added as a component dependency in the Fingerprint Reader.
• To get Windows logon to work with the scanner, an extra reboot is required *after* registering the fingerprints.
• It does NOT matter whether the device is plugged in during FBA or not. The fingerprint registration wizard will launch when the device becomes present.
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