[brucedjones]

I’ve found the solution to this problem. The reason this message appears is because you are trying to register a fingerprint for the Administrator account. Create a normal user account and it will work for that account, I can confirm that this works on my Thinkpad T61p using the drivers provided with windows update.

I found this solution by using google translate on the following page:
http://tc.wangchao.net.cn/bbs/detail_2008908.html

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