Confusing selection of login account

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I’ve been using a local admin account for some time and just added a local account without admin privileges.

Now when I login I get the two user options. Both accounts use the fingerprint reader to sign in with the same fingerprint. That might be a problem?

When I’m logged out I can see the two user names in two rectangular boxes on the lower left of my screen. I click on the admin account and use my finger to login. OOps I got the local non-admin account! How come??

If I use the PIN sign in option I have different PINs and I get the correct user.

It doesn’t seem that I can select user and then use the fingerprint reader to login. How does Windows know which user is logging in?

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Ola Hansson wrote:

It doesn’t seem that I can select user and then use the fingerprint reader to login. How does Windows know which user is logging in?

It would seem that the first use of the fingerprint gets the first nod at log in, which would be your Admin account.  My suggestion is to change fingers for the other account and see if that makes a difference.

Ola Hansson wrote:

If I use the PIN sign in option I have different PINs and I get the correct user.

I use PIN log in also, and the same PIN for two accounts, but there is no confusion for Windows using that setup.

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Thanks bbearren,

It would seem that the first use of the fingerprint gets the first nod at log in, which would be your Admin account.

Not in my case. The new account gets logged in.  I’m still wondering about how Windows works here.  If I select the admin user – user name displayed in the middle of the screen – and I select fingerprint as sign in option. My other user is logged in…

I’ve set the accounts up using different fingers and it works without problems.

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