Biometric Fingerprint Reader

Ok, this is my first time setting up and using one of these and while I started reading through all the documentation I quickly realized some advice from other people who are already using these would be greatly appreciated before I continue on with reading the docs and setting it up for my first time.

It's on a Dell Latitude D820 laptop, Dell sent Wave Systems Embassy Security software to manage it, and "it" is a TouchChip fingerprint Coprocessor according to my device manager.

I'm just wanting to know if anyone has any last minute advice on this subject before I cross the point of no return setting it up?

and what happens if you were to loose your finger or there was a hardware failure with the device, can you still log into your system by the traditional means with an old fashioned typed in password?

 

I got a HP NX6125 with a similar feature. Different software but I think it should be somewhat similar. On my system, I can set up 10 fingerprints and can log on using passwords. I currently have 4 of my fingers and 1 finger from my wife registered. There are times that the software won't let me use my fingerprint (software bug) but I just type in my password and it woks fine.

Read the manual carefully and follow it step by step. Worse case if something goes wrong, you can always use windows restore or reformat your hard drive and start from the beginning.

 

on my sony sz, there's a back up password. besides, i can use any of the 10 fingers to log in so don't worry