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I bought the reader from DigitalPersona (follow the link in my previous post). "swipe" because you swipe your finger over the reader. The Microsoft reader is a "touch" reader, i.e. you have to put your finger on it or touch it completely with your finger. Hope this helps.

Fingerprint reader not working. Unfortunately, no solution in sight. DigitalPersona says that v2.0.1 was built by a different company and is therefore not-compatible with v4 which they now sell. They don't have any plans to have a fix done on v2.0.1. They encourage people to buy their new...

Digital Persona 2.0.1 Manager Won't Install on Windows 7 Build 7264 Well... no luck installing it on build 7264 wither. Here's what I get:

Ed, you're right when it comes to Windows 7 build 7100 and build 7227. Unfortunately, when I tried that on build 7260, the Digital Persona software refused to install. I'll see if it works with build 7264 and post the results here.

Digital Persona 2.0.1 Manager Won't Install on Windows 7 Build 7260 As more Windows 7 builds became available on the torrent sites, I've been installing them to see if the Digital Persona 2.0.1 Manager would continue to work. Up to build 7227 (that's what I'm on right now) the Digital Persona...

Digital Persona Fingerprint reader and Windows 7 It seems a few people have figured out that the program needs to run in "Vista" compatibility mode (I tried "Vista SP2" and that did not work; I did not try Vista SP1 as I was getting too frustrated with the whole thign). One point I noticed...