I have a working fingerprint reader in Windows Hello.
If I wish to add another Windows Hello capable fingerprint reader to Windows, will both work?
Or do I definitely have to disable one to use the other?
I have a working fingerprint reader in Windows Hello.
If I wish to add another Windows Hello capable fingerprint reader to Windows, will both work?
Or do I definitely have to disable one to use the other?
You can add a Windows Hello fingerprint on the fingerprint reader. That works just fine.
You can only have one working fingerprint reader. Windows will assume the working fingerprint reader to pass the Hello reading to Windows.
So you very likely need to enable only the one reader you are using.
I have done some searching and there is no suggestion anywhere I have seen that you can have more than one reader. So just stick with one and disable the other.
The purpose for one fingerprint reader with multiple fingerprints is so that if one fingerprint does not work, you can try the other and it might work.
I have tested 2 readers, and they can work perfectly.
You however need to register your fingers on both of them to work (ie. if you've registered your index finger on ReaderA, it will not work with ReaderB. You'll have to register it with ReaderB too to make it work with it).
Other than that, no limitations: you can login with using either one without disabling the other.