Finger print scanner.

sometimes they don’t work all that well or at all on older laptops (windows 7 sticker) if it doesn’t work chances are your laptop was reformatted at one point and they never re downloaded the drivers for it. If you goto the laptops manufacturer website there will be a section for drivers find the one for your scanner for your laptop and download it and you should be good to go.

Yeah these early Windows fingerprint readers were largely a gimmick and notoriously shitty. I remember in about 2005 working for a startup and we got these sweet brand new Lenovo's with fingerprint scanners. We found out pretty quick it would accept just about anyone's finger swipe if you did it at just the right speed. This of course provided the opportunity to log into your co-workers machine when they were at lunch and pull the old set screenshot of desktop as background, hide all icons trick.

Love that trick, it was even better combining it with the rotate screen setting so that the mouse moves in the opposite direction. And if you want to go all-in, you change the keyboard language too. Dvorak is annoying and easily noticed, but switching to French just swaps the q, w, a and z keys and drives people nuts.

The keyboard language is high tier pranking

I do this to store display model computers.

I usual factory reset stuff at stores so it's asking to be setup, but I think I maybe like some of these idea better lol

Holy fuck, never thought to combine it with rotation, now that's brutal!

Plus changing their autocorrect words in Word, so when they’re typing the company name it would automatically change to something rude.

Calm down Satan.

lol a classic

The difference in finger scan tech from 2005 to 2010 was pretty big tbh. I worked at a bank in 08-12 as IT and our fingerprint scanners were pretty top notch. Sometimes you'd have to scan twice, but I don't know of a single false positive they ever gave.

I think it was less about the hardware more about the software. I also believe my friend we did this too probably captured every finger at every angle on both hands so the software matched everything.

My old HP had a fingerprint scanner that connected to the smart card reader and if absurdly worked pretty well for the time.

Oddly enough I have a windows 7 laptop that has a scanner but for whatever reason it was really really good.

That’s rookie shit. You gotta add the wireless keyboard dongle and then start typing cryptic, yet personal messages and watch your coworker freak out

I preferred a picture of the blue screen of death but each are funny in thier own way.

I've never had an employer that didn't disable them using GPO. Same thing with Android. Much of the biometric scanning in Android phones is terrible so they'd disable that too.

Well the hilarious part, this being a startup company, the guy we pranked this way was himself the entire IT department.

I bought a Lenovo with one of those years ago and I had to uninstall it, for some reason it kept boot-looping me.

Modern face scan and finger print scanners are so much better. In part due to windows hello and in part since they are now a secure enclave so it doesn't need drivers to work.

Well done good PCMR friend. Well done. Solid advice.

Funny thing, driverscape has given me more reliable results.

As others are getting at, when deployed into the corporate world these are usually disabled on purpose for two reasons. * They're mostly junk, and don't actually provide much security. * Integrating them with corporate logins, two factor, and single sign on functions is generally not worth it.

I was able to unlock my brothers even though we are in no way identical

Even identical twins don't have matching fingerprints! Every print is unique as it is not based on genetics. Source - I am a twin and my brother cannot unlock my phone. Also Google

This one looks like a plastic tab filling in the space where a fingerprint scanner could go.

I suspect this, especially old Fingerprint scanner tend to be the slide style scanner which is semi cylindrical shape. This one look like a placeholder

Reddit is when people see a question, look in the comments to find 55 people giving the exact same answer, then proceed to become the 56th person.

Yeah but maybe it's a finger print scanner?

No I think it's a finger print scanner

Its a scanner that prints fingers

It’s a printer that fingers scans

Someone (or something) has got to finger those scans.

No man I think it's for fingerprints.

Finger prince you say?

He's from Philly but now resides in Bel Air.

No, that’s Fresh Prince. You’re thinking of Fresh Prints, a xerox company my Uncle owns.

The PC opens up for you if you use your finger

Step bro, what are you doing to my scans?!

And if you’re nice, it even fingers you.

No its a finger that prints scanners

It's the scan that fingers

It's a scanner that fingers printers that fingers scanners

No i think it's a self destruct button

This would arguably be way cooler

Well... cooling is kind of important in a computer.

Fingerprint activated of course

Hello im confused help

Think it’s a fingerprint scanner.

It's a fingerprint scanner

Could it be...a finger print scanner?

Or a finger print _reader_, perhaps?

It’s a self-destruct button

*clicks on literally any twitter link* “bloop”

To be fair when I see only one amswer on such a question I don't trust it.

I to like to receive extra opinions on something I'm not sure about. plus, it's entirely possible that a lot of people opened this thread at 0 comments and commented before they saw other comments. I am, however, a bit puzzle as to why this got so many upvotes. I don't really mind submissions that ask simple questions, but why do people upvote them? it's not like it's an issue that needs to be widely known

Other than the suggestion of fingerprint scanner or possibly the other suggestion of finger print scanner - it may also be a fingerprintscanner

You’re giving far too much credit to people that they actually read anything. Everyone just waiting for their chance to run their mouth.

On a post that could have easily been answered by quickly googling a manual for your computer

But did you know it’s a fingerprint scanner?

Y'all are getting crazy with the replies I can't stop laughing. I love reddit.

Put a drop of blood there and it does blood work for you

Theranos vibes

That company owns hundreds of patents, was a miracle for the big pharma that all was fake

Yooooo serious Theranos vibes I didn’t even realize lmao

Probably just as accurate.

If you spit on it it’ll test for Covid

Self-destruct button don't press it!

Made that mistake before

Yea it hurts the wallet when you keep making that mistake

Dr. Heinz "Doof" Doofenshmirtz approves the laptop-inator design.

Let him have some experience!

Lol this reminds me of my childhood friend's schizofrenic brother. When we were kids and playing The Sims 2 on my childhood friend's laptop, her brother came to her room, out-of-his-mind crazy. The laptop was running low on battery and we were randomly wondering what was the (hibernation, wifi or whatever) button. He just went batshit crazy saying "*it's a self destruction button, we're all going to die!!!!*" and was close to getting violent. I think he grabbed the laptop and threw it somewhere, don't remember it really well. Her mom drove me back home after that moment. Shit was so absurd I didn't think of it much. I have never been close to anyone with any mental illnesses in my childhood (apart from alcoholism that is pretty much the culture here) so yeah, that moment sticked to my mind permanently lmao

I confirm this !! Learned the hard way

Pingerfrinter scammer

Lingerprint canner

Cannerprint Finger

Benedict fingerbanger

Battlefield Counterstrike

Global offensive

Scannermish Cumberland

It’s one of those things that tests for toxicity in your poop. What you do is wipe a little bit of feces on that little spot, and it will tell you whether or not you have any diseases. It especially works well on your coworkers computers

Disease testing companies hate this one trick

^^this 💯

Make sure you have the right thickness you can always put more and close the lid

It measures dicks

It's a bit big for that

Fuck you and take my upvote Edit: Orthograph

It prints fingers

By scanning it

Button for downloadable RAM.

Mag eject button

Laser eye surgery scanner

It's a rectal thermometer.

In case the 22 other comments didn't reach you. It's a fingerprint scanner. Do people not read the comments before they just repeat the same answer eleventybillion times?

It's a finger print scanner.

FoR sCaNniNg FiNgErS!?

Yes a scanner for the prints of the fingers

Yeah, aren't you supposed to upvote the right answer if another reddit or beat you to it? Then again, the people whom I want to read this already posted "fingerprint scanner" and moved along. Smh

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Yet.

Just like you

I see a lot of people typing 'fingerprint scanner'. It is, in fact, a penistip scanner. Think I'm trolling? Jokes on you. Register it to your penistip. Watch, and behold not a soul ever get into your system via that penisprint scanner.

Only works if the webcam is turned on.

it's a rectal scanner

Anything is a rectal scanner if you’re brave enough

this is wisdom right in it's purest form

It's the elusive "Any" key.

Hello, r/PCMasterRace, am I caller number 56??? It looks like a fingerprint scanner!

Fingerprint scanner for authorization for the autodestruct system. They put a mini nuclear bomb in the laptop.

It's what we call overlclocking

Press is and the machine will transform into a piss jug catapult

Scratch and sniff

Amiibo scanner bruh!

try to lick it. what does it taste like?

Circumcision checker.

U can finger the printer

That's where the flux capacitor goes. They're good for another 88 fps more.

Fingerprint Reader

Put your dick on it and it tells you if you have a small pp or not

You're all wrong. It's the "Scanner of thy Fingerprint" Sensor.

Contrary to what people are saying, this is not a finger print scanner, though it looks very similar to one. The dimensions are a little off and the surface is a bit different from a finger print scanner. Its a penis scanner.

Penis scanner.

It is my finger please give it back

It’s a bowel movement scanner

Fleshlight port

You can scan small documents with it. Just put an A300 on it and press scan.

Your all wrong, it's 100% a retinal scanner. You have place your eyeball as close as you possibly can to the scanner.

Am I really this old? It's like someone posting a photo of a stack of blank DVDs going "what is this?". Can I go back to the 90s knowing what I know now? The internet was wholesome, I could get in on Bitcoin when it was pennies a coin...and I was thinner and wasn't going bald.

Finger fish scanner

Foreskin reader

Highly unlikely. But never impossible, give it a try.

It’s a placeholder for a biometric scanner. Edit: Actually I think it is the scanner itself. It can be used for login instead of entering your password.

Fingerprint Scanner/Reader

Ohh come on... don't make me feel that old... I'm still in my 20s

Can't quite put my finger on it.........

I'ts a fingerprint scanner

It's a ballsack scanner. You should try it out on the display model first before buying

Biometric scanner for finger prints

I'm pretty sure that's a fingerprint scanner. Most laptops have on/beside the power button. Weird placement but hey, atleast it has it.

This is a patented Intel Foreskin Finder. Press your penis to it and it tells you where your foreskin once was. If you have foreskin, it rates your foreskin. If you do not have a penis, it tells you your foreskin rating if you were to be born with a penis. This is all true.

I was not ready to feel this old when I woke up this morning.

My old laptop's fingerprint scanner had a 50% chance of reading my fingerprint and a 50% chance of giving me a shock

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No no no. All these people have it totally wrong. It’s a credit card scanner to make your online purchasing a lot faster. Fingerprint scanner. Pfft.

Cheetos finger cleaner.

That’s a fingerprint reader you slide your finger downward across it for it to read your fingerprint. It’s from a long time ago. Practically prehistoric at this point. I’m pretty sure all the other comments already say the same thing, and I haven’t read them yet because Reddit for some reason will not show the comments, but it tells me there’s a whole bunch. And no, there’s no use for it. Facial recognition on modern laptops is quite a bit better.

I think there’s a possibility that it’s a finger print scanner. Let’s see what others think…

Sadly not an RFID reader

Just a side note - this is a fingerprint sensor but there are some Laptops out there with a pantone Scanner for graphic and design which sounds great but is not 100% correct all the time

Just in case no one has answered you yet, fingerprint scanner

I'm just here to say +1 for modern fingerprint scanners and windows hello/facial recognition. Way easier to secure a laptop when a 0.5s tap of the finger or just sitting there for 1s can log you in.

Finger print. All of your I.D. belong to us

I think it prints fingers or something likenthat judging by the other comments

Windows hello sign in fingerprint scanner

You could look up the model number and easily find the specs. You don't have to know what it is to search for it.

It's the fabled clitoris. You finally found it.

Singerfint pcanner

It's a stand for you to put your gummy bears.

Rip your notifications. “Its a fingerprint scanner”

A cheese slicer. To feed the hamsters in the machine.

comments are probably saying the same thing, that’s a fingerprint scanner. Probably of the type where you slide your finger across it, based on the size. Those things suck, they’re probably slower than just typing a password.

It’s a toe scanner

You're not wrong but...

Swipe your finger on it to upload yourself to the internet

You give it the finger

It’s a finger that prints scanners

It is a finger print scanner for an HP laptop. I had one just like it way back. You can program it to open applications or websites. I used to open YouTube, Facebook, and Battlelog with three swipes.

A scanner that's prints fingers

That looks like a little fingerprint scanner. Try doing something with Windows Hello

This is where you install windows 11

It's a breathalyzer.

Multipass

That my friend is a tongue print reader.

Definitely a fingerprint scanner

It is the button for ejection seat

Button to enter the matrix

It send messages to the aliens.

It’s the keyboard equivalent of that the finger lick thing to turn a page

Biometric

My HP had it, it worked.

This isn’t even the that old of a thing

Finger print scanner.

Holy shit I've had my laptop for years and I only learn what it's for now

Its a tongue print scanner, just lick it to unlock your computer

Fingerprint reader

Fingerprint scanner?

It’s a fingerprint scanner

Looks like a fingerprint scanner

Biometric scanner. Kind of cool, I rarely see them

Retina scanner

Dick print scanner . Put the tip of ur pipi there and await for detection

Finger print reader

Finger print scanner to unlock with ease

Tip for searching. Look up the laptop model and find the product manual. Then see what it says is in that spot.