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kenw232 · #1 Post by **kenw232** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:07 pm

Can I disable the frintprint reader on the T43? I scared I'm going to touch it accidently and then the computer will do something.

Are there T43 models with no fingerprint?

christopher_wolf · #2 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:11 pm

Yes, you can disable it; but I have never seen it activate all by itself when a finger was swiped over it. There are also T43s without the Fingerprint reader as well.

Just swiped my finger over it now and nothing came up or popped up. I do know, however, that other laptop makers have a finger swipe trigger all sorts of stuff including the reader software; but as far as I know, that won't happen on a T43 with a fingerprint reader.

HTH

davidspalding · #3 Post by **davidspalding** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:10 pm

You have to hit the keystroke combo (CTRL + SHIFT + G?) or double click the little CSS red padlock in the Windows dessert tray to initiate a Six Million Dollar Man finger swipe action. Nice that, though the idea is so you don't have to type a password. So you have to do something with the keyboard.

Maybe in the future you can initiate it with voice, making the usual "na-na-na-na-na-na-naaaaa" sound. I'm e-mail Oscar Goldman about that.

robvarga · #4 Post by **robvarga** » Fri May 18, 2007 9:54 am

davidspalding wrote:You have to hit the keystroke combo (CTRL + SHIFT + G?) or double click the little CSS red padlock in the Windows dessert tray to initiate a Six Million Dollar Man finger swipe action. Nice that, though the idea is so you don't have to type a password. So you have to do something with the keyboard.

Maybe in the future you can initiate it with voice, making the usual "na-na-na-na-na-na-naaaaa" sound. I'm e-mail Oscar Goldman about that.

Can I disable this CTRL-SHIFT-G? It is blocking a keyboard shortcut in Eclipse...

polityk · #5 Post by **polityk** » Sat May 19, 2007 1:46 am

I have a t43 with fingerprint reader...

It works like this:
You swipe your finger only when you need to enter windows password or power-on bios password,
in other cases it's turned off.
If you accidently touch it - nothing happens

You have to swipe it (while running a special program) 3 times identically to save you fingerprints...
There is no way to do any harm because of the fingerprint reader really

about ctrl + shift +g - what's that ? it doesn't do anything on my t43..

mattster · #6 Post by **mattster** » Sat May 19, 2007 2:43 pm

CTRL+Shift+G is the recall hotkey for the CSS Password Manager. So, unless you have CSS installed on your system its not going to activate anything.

Matt

davidspalding · #7 Post by **davidspalding** » Sun May 20, 2007 3:21 pm

robvarga wrote:Can I disable this CTRL-SHIFT-G? It is blocking a keyboard shortcut in Eclipse...

Yep, in the Password Manager control panel (advanced settings). You can set a custom shortcut, or (I think) disable both, and just use the "double click the notification area icon" method. FWIW, I use CTRL + SHIFT + F2, as FN + F2 is the "lock computer" utility popup.

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