Windows 10: Windows Spotlight images suddenly stopped appearing on login screen

You are saying you want the login screen to look like the lock screen, aren't you?

The point of that tutorial is to make the login screen the same as the lock screen.

 

Yes that's exactly what I'm saying. But the lock screen has been set to "Windows Spotlight"...i.e. changing the image every day or so!
The login screen should also be "Windows Spotlight", but it isn't. It's stuck to an image other than the daily Windows Spotlight image...and this started after CU. Before CU both screens were working with the Windows Spotlight!

 

If you're saying yuo've followed the tutorial and the login screen is not displaying the same image, presumably something's broken in your user profile.

Try creating another user for test purposes and see what happens then.

 

Shawn's tutorial is not rocket science. It says a simple thing:

If you want both images, in lock and login screen, to be the same just enable "Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen", making sure that "Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing" in Visual effects is also enabled.

Since this was working before CU, either MS, once more, screwed up Windows Spotlight, or CU corrupted somehow my profile. The reason for not accepting -yet- the corruption possibility, is that nothing else seems to be broken, since July, when I updated to CU.

But as you suggested I'll create a new user to test it.

UPDATE: Nope new user, same issue. Lock screen on Windows Spotlight, sign-in screen the cave image!

 

I can confirm I have the CU and the lock screen and login screen are the same.
Sorry I can't help further with any simple fix.

 

Thanks a lot for your time!
Just one last question. Do you have the same screen by using "Windows Spotlight" or just a "picture"?

 

Windows behave differently depending on how you arrived at the sign in screen.

If you are signed in and lock the screen, either manually or by timeout, with "Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen" you should get exactly that - the Spotlight picture on the sign in screen.

At start up it's different, the sign in screen will be whatever is currently selected as 'Picture' on the lock screen settings of the last user to log in, even if you had Spotlight selected as the lock screen. By default this is the 'man cave' but you can set it to any picture you want. I've saved a favourite spotlight picture and set mine to use this.

More here: Windows Spotlight Question

 

It keeps changing every so often.. with the option to like it or not.. that's Spotlight.

And I have the Spotlight preview working in Settings.

Note that you can't expect the Spotlight image to appear (on anything) on restart. That's handled differently- you may get a picture.




You could try enabling, say, Weather (one app) on your lock screen. Once I had been fiddling with this area and broke it, and found doing that helped at one stage (Spotlight wasn't working at all, so different to yours). I never got the preview back until I upgraded to the CU. It does seem relatively fragile.

Also check your registry is set as shown in the tutorial.
Show Lock Screen Background on Sign-in Screen in Windows 10 Windows 10 Customization Tutorials

 

Thanks a lot @Bree!!! It was driving me nuts!
I was pretty sure, that before CU, I was seeing the last Windows Spotlight image at startup or after signing out and not the image currently selected as 'Picture' on the lock screen settings of the last user to log in, even if I had Spotlight selected as the lock screen!

If you know that the one you described is the "correct" behavior (cause that's what I get!), then I must start questioning my memory...Alzheimer's disease is not that rare anymore... *Wink
Take care!

 

My Settings:





As for the Registry entry, I did check it and is 0.
Thnx again!

 

Have you checked the note in the tutorial?
If you turn on Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen, then you will need to make sure that you have Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing checked in your visual effects settings to prevent the lock screen background from not displaying properly.

 

Yes I did. It's 'Enabled' and to be sure I toggled it just in case!

BTW did you read Bree's explanation posted before?
My problem was at startup or logging off....he claims that this is normal behavior!...maybe he's right and I start developing Alzheimer's disease. *Smile

Could you please lock your PC (Win+L) and after unlocking it, log off and see if your images are the same. Cause mine aren't!
And sorry for putting you into that much trouble!!

 

See my comment 3rd sentence #21 - written while Bree was posting.

Yes, they are the same on lock, sleep... but if I recall, not on switching user.

 

I read it again....sorry I missed it before!!!
So according to you and Bree...I need to spend a fortune to see if I'm developing Alzheimer's disease *Biggrin as I was pretty sure that at startup (or log off) I was seeing a different picture every time, presumably the Spotlight image, before CU.

Thanks a lot guys! I'm a sick person..... *Banghead

I do appreciate your time and help! *Smile

 

It's a bit hit and miss in my experience. Sometimes from restart I see the spotlight image (but no option to like it or not) and more often a picture. A case of spot(light) the difference maybe?