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Exactly, who hasn't this fingerprint reader can't even imagine how many driver issues we had after any windows major updates. I just wanted to share a solution (after a single day since the release of W10). For me, now it works even better than before (with W8.1). It lets you scan once, but after that it refuses to light up the scanner nor does it attempt a scan. There are no errors with fprint. I'm running 19.04, Here's what it looks like in lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:0005 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS301 Fingerprint Reader. Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 177 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.

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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.

I hope this might help other people as well. If you have a question, you can write me.