Windows 10: Windows 10 Lock Screen Background Doesn't Show Up (stays theme color)

Just installed Windows 10 on my primary laptop and the lock screen is a solid blue (if I change my theme color, the lock screen changes too). However, I have Windows Spotlight turned on. I've tried setting a static picture or slideshow as the background. I also confirmed that the files needed for Windows Spotlight are indeed downloaded onto my computer. It just refuses to change.

It's worth noting that on my secondary computer with Windows Insider builds, I have, and have been having, the same problem. Any ideas as to how to fix it?


My lock screen (apparently you can't screenshot the lock screen):




My settings app:




The folder where Windows Spotlight stores images:




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And blue is the accent color for that theme, correct?

After installing Windows 10 on my laptop my lock screen is experiencing the same problem as you, as well as in the desktop. In the desktop I found out that if I set a specific picture or slideshow and set the taskbar to detect color, the taskbar will switch colors to match the picture(s) as if they were displaying, but the pictures themselves don't actually appear on either the desktop or lockscreen.

If we are having an identical problem, that would mean that the pictures are still displaying, but the accent colors are taking priority over them, in a sense.

 

I have the same issue - disabling Control+Alt+Delete makes the picture show

With it enabled, no picture appears - bug?

 

I did some more testing. It does appear that enabling Windows Secure Logon is what causes the lock screen to blank out. This did not happen in Windows 8.1. I can't tell if this is an intentional feature or a bug, but it's annoying, because I'd really like to keep Secure Logon enabled. Anyone know anything about this?

 

Not sure if this is of any relevance: CTRL-ALT-DEL lock screen background [BUG]

 

Kind of, but not really. You can't edit group policies in Windows 10 Home.

 

And... the new August 5th "Cumulative Update for Windows 10" (KB3081424) seems to have fixed this problem.

 

I regret to say it but KB3081424 actually seems to have caused the problem!

Before the update the login screen showed the selected picture but now it shows in the settings as my image but I can't make it actually show on login.

I, along with many others, use Ctrl-Alt-Del for security on login. Why has Microsoft decided that they know better than users what to display on the login screen??

 

Getting the issue as well where the default stock lock screen image shows, not the one I select in Settings - also none of the app notifications show still..

 

Yeah, after further testing, I'm also getting a similar problem where the lock screen background never changes (Windows Spotlight is supposed to), and notifications don't show up. Still no solution...

 

I had this problem in my desktop , my laptop was working fine, the solution for me was to select a background picture, instead of slideshow, and turn off the automatic color accents, I didnt know which one of these fixed it , but after trying many things it's working now I don't want to mess with it any more lol.
at first I had slideshow as desktop "background" (wallpaper), and setting spotlight as lock screen wouldn't work, after messing around i got it to work somehow, seems like it was either one or the other for me, but I noticed that if I selected SPOTLIGHT first, and after that set the background to slideshow, both work fine, but if I had desktop slideshow set prior to lockscreen spotlight then spotlight wouldn't show. So I had to 1) disable both , 2) then select single picture as desktop background, 3) then enable spotlight on lock screen, lock the screen just to see it was fine (dont know if by locking the screen something was written to registry or not), 4) then re-enable the slideshow for desktop background, that way both worked for me.
Also I had to turn on the "Show Windows background picture on the sign-in screen" switch.

So somehow if I had slideshow set first then there was no way for my pc to show the lock spotlight, spotlight had to be there first.

 

change power options to normal start (remove checkmark from Fast Start); Change background from Windows Spotlight to Slideshow; shutdown completely; reboot; change background back to Windows Spotlight; shutdown completely again; reboot and Windows Spotlight should work again on lock screen background; I haven't tried changing back to Fast Start yet, so not sure if this will work with Fast Start;

 

Where is that setting? I'm having a similar problem where spotlight works and will change the background of the sign-in screen, but if I select my own picture, the sign-in screen instead is set to one of the those default rock formation backgrounds, specifically the cave on the beach one. If I choose the Show Ctrl-Alt-Del option, however, my picture will show on the sign-in screen after locking the computer and then hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del. Really weird. Also, the Switch User screen will sometimes respect the image that I choose, but the Sign-in screen itself will not, unless Show Ctrl-Alt-Del is enabled.