Recent content by deepskydiver

Thank you all for your help. I can confirm that it was solved using johngalt's suggestion: Creating a new power plan from scratch allowed me to use my fingerprint reader when waking from hibernate. On a related note, I can't find a way of getting it to hibernate after sleep. So I have it set...

So I'm out of options?

I've run through settings again. Although I found one more place I could set it to be balanced rather than for power savings it hasn't made any difference. I've also checked the bios again. Does it mean that in the process of hibernating some process - or the BIOS - overrides the setting I've...

Ah - but it's working again once I log in. And there's no way to check it before I have..

Yes I just can't find it. I assumed it would be the same service that resets the value allowing the sensor to turn off for power saving. So I've been restarting every service I think it could be, then checking if that checkbox is set again. What should I change for the service if I find it?

Yes I did that this morning (uninstalled so I had no fingerprint reader then downloaded and installed the file from Lenovo). Unfortunately no change.

Thanks both. That solution hasn't worked for me. They mention a service to modify but I don't have a similar service. I don't know which service or whether it's the driver changing that setting in device manager back, then allowing the fingerprint reader to get powered off. The reader is...

Hi everyone, I have a Lenovo C930 laptop. This problem has persisted through all updates of Windows 10 and Windows 11. The fingerprint reader works normally on starting and on resuming from sleep. But on resuming from hibernate the fingerprint reader doesn't work. No settings within the power...