Windows 10: In Windows 11, Windows Spotlight not working in Personalization-Lockscreen. It's obvious...

In Windows 11, Windows Spotlight is not working in Personalization--Lockscreen. It's obvious Microsoft doesn't care. If they did care, considering how many people are complaining about the issue, and how many solutions all of them have failed, Microsoft would have issued a mea culpa and would have begun trying to fix the issue. Microsoft has done absolutely nothing. It makes me wonder what else is wrong with Windows 11 that we don't know about like Screen Saver frequently having to be re-activated after de-activating on its own, and if the solution about a year from now perhaps will

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windows spotlight not working as intended?


windows spotlight works when locking the screen from the desktop. but will not show on the lockscreen when booting up.

steps taking.

refreshed system with deleting everything.

sfc detected no problems

dism no problems.

 

Windows Spotlight

Hi Jon, Windows Spotlight has been causing issues for lots of users lately. Personally I find it very buggy . . .

Below are the steps to reset Spotlight, I have listed it out in as simple a form as I think possible:

Open Settings App - Personalization - Lockscreen

Under "Background," make sure Windows Spotlight is NOT selected and change the option to Picture

Close the Settings App

Open Windows File Explorer, then copy and paste this into the Address Bar

%USERPROFILE%/AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

Select all the files (Ctrl + A) in that assets folder delete everything

Then copy and paste this into the Address Bar:

%USERPROFILE%/AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\Settings

In that folder, delete settings.dat and roaming.loc

Restart your PC

When your PC starts:

Open Settings App - Personalization - Lockscreen

Under "Background," set it to Windows Spotlight

That's It!

 

Windows Spotlight Lockscreen not visible

Hi,

The recent Windows 10 update may have unregistered your Windows Spotlight or possible that a software conflict may have caused this problem. Have you tried shutting down and restarting your computer? If you haven't, then we suggest that you do that first
to isolate this problem.

If restarting your computer did not do anything, then we may have to re-register your Windows Spotlight. Follow these steps:

• Go to Settings and click Personalization.
• Click Lock screen.
• Set Background to either Picture or Slideshow.
• Open the Run command by pressing Windows key + R.
• Type in the below command and hit Enter.

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like “*SystemApps*”} | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}

Once done, press Windows key + L to see if Windows Spotlight is working.

Update us with the result.

Regards.