2015-09-18 20:15 by Thorben Bürgel
Since I spent a bigger amount of time reasarching on how to make the Validity fingerprint reader (VFS451) on my HP ProBook 4520s working together with Windows 10 and its 'Hello' login function, I want to share my solution. Normally, I am only used to fiddle around with device drivers on Linux, but this time Microsoft left its customers without support.
I have read several forum and blog post about fingerprint reader issues on Windows 10, but nothing seemed to work. I tried to uninstall and reinstall the driver in the device manager, but without success. I also found different driver version on the internet and tried them. Some seemed to work for one scan, but failed on the second. Thus, I assume that with these drivers both scans didn't match, even the scan result was usable.
However, finally I found a driver that is working. The proper version is: 4.4.234.00.
Windows Hello could finally register my fingerprints and the login is working without problems.
You can find this drivers on the HP servers http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp58501-59000/sp58869.exe
After downloading and unpacking the driver, you can just manually install it in the device driver.
How you can do this, you can find here.
Validity Sensor Driver
I hope this might help other people as well. If you have a question, you can write me.
- Validity Fingerprint Common Driver for Windows 10 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Desktops, Laptops and Workstations.
- Hardware IDs USB VID138A or USB vendor ID (VID) 138A recognizes Validity Sensors, Inc. As the USB vendor and manufacturer of the device or devices listed below. USB Vendor ID (VID), Device ID (PID) and SUBSYS ID are used to recognize the manufacturer and model of a devices.
Validity Sensor (vfs495)
Validity Fingerprint Common Driver for Windows 10 03:20 PM - edited 11:09 AM. Who hasn't this fingerprint reader can't even imagine how many driver issues we had after any windows major updates. Fixed deposit management software, free download filehippo. Im going to try this in my probook 4530s with VFS471 sensor.
