L540: Password accepted nowhere but logon screen

Hello!
I have been happily using the fingerprint sensor on my L540 for a while, until a few months ago I reinstalled Windows 7 (Professional, 64x). After setting up everything and installing the Lenovo drivers, I noticed this issue:
When I start up the laptop and type in the password, it'll accept it.* But if I open the dialogue to change it, Windows will claim that the password I type in is wrong. I tried many times, also copy-pasting in case it had changed the keyboard layout, but it just won't accept the password that works on the logon screen.
The same thing happens when I close the laptop and it enters sleep mode, and then I try logging on again. In that case the only thing that helps is turning the laptop off completely and rebooting.
*For a while it also wouldn't accept the password on the login screen *until* the password hint was shown. Of course maybe I just mistyped it, but it happened very consistently for 1-2 weeks or so. At some point that specific issue didn't come up anymore, without me changing anything.
In short, I can't set up the fingerprint sensor because that requires me to type in the password, and I can't change it to something easier. This particular password wasn't meant to be typed a lot; I trusted the fingerprint sensor would work.
I thought it might perhaps be caused by one of the drivers, since the problem started happening not immediately, but only a few days after I'd set up Windows. (My memory is a bit hazy, sorry.)
So I threw out most of the drivers I'd downloaded manually (esp. the keyboard and fingerprint driver) and installed a package that would automatically install drivers, but that didn't change anything.
I have no clue whether this would be a Lenovo issue or a Windows issue. Can you give me some idea where to go with this problem?
Many thanks!
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Easiest thing would be just to use the new account. But as for why that happened, I don't really know why. =/
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