T400 Fingerprint Software in Windows 7 no longer working

A few days ago, after the usual windows 7 upgrade, the fingerprint prompt to swipe any enrolled finger just disappeared.
After several attempts of reinstalling of the fingerprint software what worked is as follows:
- From the control panel, Programs and Features, uninstall both the windows driver package and the lenovo fingerprint software;
- Download and install the latest lenovo fingerrpint software from the Lenovo support site;
- After the restart, you will be prompted to enroll one or more of your fingers. I was able to enroll one but then later I got an error message "cannot communicate with sensor" or something like it.
- What I did is to go to the control panel, device manager, then pointed to the authentec device and chose properties. Uncheck the box which says something like "allow the computer to switch off device to save on power".
- Then chose from the control panel, Lenovo's Fingerprint Reader and proceeded with the enrollment without any issues.
- Restarted the system, and it worked as smoothly as before. BTW, enrolled six fingers, three on each hand.

i would believe it might be the limiting of the number of programs during startup.
do a msconfig and configure it to startup only windows item only. See if this makes any diference
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