Microsoft Keyboard wit Fingerprint Reader on Vista
February 4, 2007 at 12:14 am 1 comment
I installed Vista two months ago, and although most drivers were installed out of the box, a few drivers did not. Among those is the fingerprint reader on my “Microsoft Keyboard wit Fingerprint Reader”. Actually, the keyboard itself works fine, it is just the fingerprint reader that has no driver installed.Before Vista, I used it for logging on to my home pc almost every time.
I was expecting the drivers to be installed automatically throug Windows Update, but today, after two month I gave up. First I tried Driver Detective, an excellent piece of software which already has a Windows Vista version. However, it reported the device with a “driver not found” mark.
After a bit of searching I go the drivers in two steps:
i) Installing the latest version of the IntelliType Pro software from Microsoft
ii) Installing the DigitalPersona Password Manager 2.0, also from Microsoft.
After a restart (which by the way take som time on Vista), and some calibrating using the autostarting Wizard, I worked fine.
Anyway, logging on to Vista is easier now. For the home office, it offers good enough security.
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1. Kevin | April 29, 2009 at 1:13 pm
You are an absolute legend! just bought this product for my vista laptop and was so upset to only find xp drivers, ill definetly be hosting the setup file for future use for other poor users who cant find the drivers
… just a side note, the intellitype drivers dont seem to install using the latest ones but the digitalperonsa stuff worked a treat!