Windows 10: Question about Lockscreen Slideshow not working

Hi everyone, I've never had the issue before, but I've discovered in the past week, when my computer goes into the lock screen, it was just using a single picture my sign in screen picture instead of the rotating slideshow I had set up.


This was working in the past, but for some reason it's not working now.


This is the things that I've noticed:


1. When my screen goes to the lock screen, it's just the picture that I had if you were to change the option to 'Pictures'. Even when I switch it to Slideshow, it seems to remember the last picture that was in this option.


2. When my screen goes to the lock screen, it no longer shows the time, just the picture.


3. This is when it's a bit strange. I've noticed that when it goes into the lock screen, after a few seconds if I were to tap my mouse key or enter key to go into login, the screen actually flashes and I can see the actual rotating lockscreen for less than a second, then it goes to my login screen. So I'm suspecting that for some strange reason, the computer is actually still running my rotating slideshow as my lock screen, but instead it's showing a picture of the lockscreen on top of it.


I've played around with the settings and make sure that it's set as before, but it's driving me crazy, has anyone else experienced this before?


Thanks in advance


so tldr: When my screen goes into lock screen, it shows the picture I had saved if the option is set to pictures but I've set it to slideshow. Time doesn't show in the lockscreen anymore, but when I try to enter to the login, a the screen will flick and it will show another picture which is one of the pictures inside the slideshow folder with the time, before going into the lock screen again.

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Since Update 1803, the slideshow and Windows spotlight do no properly start when the PC is locked or on inactivity.

Before the 1803 update it was possible to set a Slideshow album, Picture or Windows Spotlight and with WIN+L or on PC inactivity it would switch to the lockscreen and run the pictures
with the system time, weather-apps, etc. in the lower left corner.

Since update 1803 the lockscreen slideshows ONLY trigger on first system boot. Afterwards, when the user uses WIN+L or waits for inactivity, the lockscreen displays only the first picture of Spotlight and no slideshow starts. The
system time is not displayed anymore.

Setting the lockscreen to Slideshow, the lockscreen will only show a blank screen and not start the slideshow and the
system time is missing.

User needs to select a picture from the slideshow album as Picture option first and switch back to Slideshow.

Then, the lockscreen will only display this first picture and not start the slideshow.

Additionally, after boot up, when the user uses WIN+L, it may happen that the system time and slideshow are working.
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Most certainly, the slideshow and spotlight are not working when the PC goes inactive.

Furthermore;

Before 1803, when waking the PC from lockscreen, the user did not need to enter his PW in case the lockscreen was triggered by inactivity. Only if the user used WIN+L the start the lockscreen.

After 1803, the PW is needed in both cases.

This really bother me

I posted this in the feedback hub already with captured steps. Windows Insider Program