If Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-in Security is not working with external camera, enable ESS, make registry changes, manage Intune policy, etc.

So, my wife has an Asus laptop from a few years back that has an IR and web camera integrated and it has Windows Hello enabled so she or I can simply turn it on/wake it from sleep and it 'looks' at ...

Windows then often gets tangled up and activates the integrated camera, even though you need the external one to log in to Windows Hello, for example — this happens especially after the computer has ...

My laptop has a facial recognition camera. After login, the camera shut off as one might expect. I am not sure when it started happening, but the facial recognition camera on my laptop would turn back ...

Microsoft is expanding one of the least understood security features in Windows 11. Beginning with the August 2026 update, Enhanced Sign-in Security (ESS) now supports compatible external fingerprint ...

Windows Central notes that the change has been made to solve a spoofing vulnerability. The question is, will it really matter? My quick tests say that from a practical sense: no, it won’t. I took ...

Microsoft has removed a compatibility hold that prevented devices with integrated cameras from installing Windows 11 24H2 due to a face detection bug causing app freezes. The issues were triggered ...

Q: What’s Windows Hello, and should I be using it? A: If you’re like most computer users, getting into your PC involves typing in a password or maybe even a PIN. Windows Hello is akin to what most of ...