Windows Hello Remove Fingerprint
If you see the message That Fingerprint has already been set up on another account, Try a different finger when you try to set up Windows Hello on Windows 11/10 do the following:
- Open Services console (Windows key + R and type Services.msc). Stop the service called Windows BioMetric Service (WbioSrvc)
- Open folder location in file explorer: C:\Windows\System32\WinBioDatabase\. On this location, there will GUID.dat files.
- For each file, do the following:
- Open with notepad
- Select all and delete the file content
- SaveAs the file to the desktop (select all files to avoid .txt extension)
- Once all files are duplicated to the desktop, move those files to C:\Windows\System32\WinBioDatabase and replace the existing files
- Start the service Windows BioMetric Service again.
All bio data will be removed from the computer. You can set up Windows Hello afresh!