Windows 10: Spotlight not working

Windows 10 v1803 17134.81 Spotlight is not working after installing IOBit StartMenu 8.

Is there a way where I can get Spotlight working?

Thanks.

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Windows Spotlight not working

Hi,

For better assistance, we would like to know more information about your concern.

• Are you still encountering the same issue on Spotlight?
• Did you already try to do what Time Lady suggested?

If the issue still persists, kindly mention what are the steps you've done so far.

We are looking forward to your response.

Regards.

 

Windows Spotlight not working on first boot

UPDATED 8/19/2017

I'm not sure every step is necessary, but this seems to work.

• First, go to Settings/personalization/lock screen. Change setting from Windows Spotlight to Picture or Slideshow.

• clean out these folders C:\Users\(user name)\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState
  and C:\Users\(user name)\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\Settings

• Go back to Settings/personalization/lock screen and set it back to Spotlight. When I did this I got an aerial picture taken from the cockpit of a bi-plane. Give it a few minutes to see if it changes. If not, continue regardless.

• Go to your lock screen. If Spotlight appears, reboot your computer. If Spotlight doesn't appear, go back to
  Settings/personalization/lock screen and switch from Spotlight to Picture and back again. Again, you may have to wait a few minutes to see if the picture changes. If it does, go back to your
  lock screen to verify Spotlight loads and reboot again. Hopefully it should work at this point.

After getting Spotlight back on start-up and losing it again, it occurred to me that previewing it in lock screen before rebooting might have an effect on loading the Spotlight image. That seems to be the case.

Also, going to Windows Administrative Tools/Services and switching
Delivery Options to automatic might have had an effect.