Windows 10 : How to Start or Stop Windows Biometric Service

Windows 10 : How to Start or Stop Windows Biometric Service

Windows Hello biometrics lets you sign in to your devices, apps, online services, and networks using your face, iris, or fingerprint.

Modern days laptop and PC comes with a built-in face or fingerprint scanner. Windows Biometric Service or WbioSrvc is used to manage this feature and allow client applications to capture, compare, manipulate, as well as store biometric data. The service doesn’t need to gain direct access to any biometric hardware or samples for this. The service is hosted in a privileged SVCHOST process and Enabling this will allow the system to run this data.

Issues addressed in this tutorial:
start or stop windows biometric service
start or stop windows biometric service at startup
start or stop windows biometric service automatic)
start or stop windows biometric service client
start or stop windows biometric service check
start or stop windows biometric service CPU usage
start or stop windows biometric service CPU usage windows 11
start or stop windows biometric service CPU

Did you hear about Windows hello? What exactly is Windows hello? Windows hello is an excellent feature introduced by Microsoft to all the windows users. This feature allows you to access your device, or apps with the help of biometric data such as iris scan or fingerprint detection. These are collected, saved and manipulated on system that has inbuilt biometric sensor / scanner. But many users have reported that they are not able to use these fingerprint sensor on their system to access their device. This is certainly because Windows biometric service is not enabled on their laptop. Users who do not have those biometric sensor/scanner, need to disable this service because this can end up using high CPU resulting in a bit slow in performance. Here in this post, we are going to show you how you can enable or disable the Windows biometric service in Windows 11.

Using biometrics (fingerprint or face) aka Windows Hello to log into your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer can be much more convenient and secure than using a password, more so when used as part of multi-factor authentication. If you have encountered the issue whereby Windows Biometric Service has stopped working on your system, the solutions provided in this post are intended to help you fix the issue.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Alienware, Razer, MSI, Huawei , Microsoft Surface, and Samsung.