How to disable (and re-enable) Lenovo VeriFace without uninstall

I own a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t and I’m pretty satisfied with it (apart from the glossy screen and the bevel border arround the touchscreen that doesn’t allow you to easily touch near the screen edges – and would much prefer a NVidia GPU instead of Intel Graphics Accelerator which doesn’t support WDM1.1 btw [keep on dreaming]).

However, a very annoying thing is that it contains a security software named VeriFace (face recongition for easier login) that once you enable and let it grab your photo you can’t disable anymore without uninstalling it. So it pops up at every login screen, even after you may have started typing the password.

Microsoft Sysinternals tools to the rescue: their Autoruns tool allows you to locate and enable/disable or delete all items that can load when you boot your system or when you login etc. (unfortunately there is a multitude of ways for a process to autorun on Windows which also makes it easier for malware authors to hide their stuff).

Select the Winlogon tab, and uncheck the item described as Lenovo VeriTouch Credential Library. At next logoff/reboot you won’t see VeriFace popup again. To re-enable it later on if you’ve missed it, just check that item again using the Autoruns tool.