Windows 10: Windows spotlight keeps turning itself off

Every so often, windows will turn off Windows spotlight, and I can't figure out why. For the background image, I choose "spotlight" and leave it. Then I'll notice that the background becomes solid black, and I go back into the settings to see the background image was changed to solid color. Upon reboot, it gets set to "picture", but never gets put back into spotlight unless I manually go back and change it back. Any suggestions on what could be causing this?I ran sfc /scannow and it returned no errors.

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Spotlight

Hi,

Windows spotlight is an option for the lock screen background that displays different background images and occasionally offers suggestions on the lock screen. For us to better isolate your concern, we'd like to gather more information:

• Is there a way for you to provide us a screenshot?
• Have you made any recent changes before this issue occur?
• Are you able to use spotlight before?

Meanwhile, we suggest that you follow these steps to modify Lock screen background to spotlight:

• Open Settings.
• Click Personalization and select Lock screen.
• Under Background, choose Windows spotlight.

Keep us posted if you need additional help.

 

windows spotlight

Hi Leland,

Windows Spotlight is a nifty feature in Windows 10. It can downloads pictures and advertisements from Bing and then displays them on your lock screen. Besides, you can mark whether you wish to see more or less images of a similar type.

To sort out your concern, simply follow the steps provided below:

• Go to privacy settings:
  
• Background apps turn on
  
• For spottlight setting app must be on.
  
• You can now use spottlight in personalisation tab.

We also suggest to re-register your Windows Spotlight by following the steps provided by
Kapil Arya MVP on this
link.

Should you need further information, don't hesitate to contact us.

Regards.

 

Turn off comments on Windows Spotlight?

I've 1) Chosen None for the detailed status app 2) Changed Local Group Policy to not show Windows Tips in

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Cloud Content\Do not show Windows Tips and 3) Switched Lock Screen to Picture, turned off "Show fun facts, tips and more" rebooted and turned Spotlight back on.

None of those steps are working to disable the annoying and intrusive text comments that have suddenly become a feature of Windows Spotlight, which I had been enjoying up until now. Microsoft, please provide an option to just see the pictures, not "What
can be cuter than this baby sloth," and "Did you know that blah blah blah?"