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Both face and fingerprint authenticate in under a second on all the machines I use.

If the machine is joined to a domain you'd need to use Hello for Business. It's more involved to set up, but if you've got enough Windows computers to have an AD domain you should definitely do it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-p...

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I used Windows Hello for about a year with a Razer Stargazer (IR Camera) and was always impressed with how quickly it was able to auth me, no matter if I was wearing glasses or not. Less than a second for me too, and that camera does not have the fastest start time, from camera init to capturing from both RGB and IR cameras.

At first I was skeptical about the usefulness of such a feature given my password doesn't take long to type, but it turned it to be a feature I really enjoyed.

I have a IR camera built into my Dell Latitude. It's suprising at how quick it is. The only catch is that I'm usually loocking at my monitor and have to turn to the laptop for it to pick up.

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