Windows 10: Windows Spotlight - Lock Screen image will not show on Sign-In Screen

Hi all,

I haven't posted here before, so hopefully it's not breaching etiquette to jump straight to the question! I'm running Windows 10 Home version 1903 (Build 18362.778) on a desktop computer.

A while ago, I installed DisplayFusion to help support wallpaper rotation and multiple taskbars on a triple monitor setup, and while exploring the options, I ticked the box that said "Allow DisplayFusion to manage the Windows Lock Screen'. This allowed me to set a custom image for the windows sign-in screen when cold-booting the computer, as well as the lock screen.

I've now unchecked this box, and I've been able to re-enable Windows Spotlight to manage the lock screen - that's the one I see after I've logged in, and then press Windows+L. This works fine. However, when cold-booting or locking the screen, the Spotlight image will not show on the sign-on screen (where the password/PIN is entered) no matter what I do. It just shows a flat colour for the whole screen. Just to be completely clear (as there are lots of threads and posts about enabling Spotlight), I've tried the following:

- Tried both 'Off' and 'On' under "Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen" under Personalisation > Locak Screen.
- Clearing previous spotlight image caches under %USERPROFILE%/AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets
- Tried renaming and deleting the settings.dat and deleting roaming.lock under %USERPROFILE%/AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\Settings

So, when locking the computer after booting, I *do* see a Spotlight image. However, while on the spotlight image (where I have the overlay of facts and the 'I like'/'I don't like' options, if I press Enter to bring up the 'Enter PIN' dialog, the picture disappears and is replaced by the flat colour.

My only guess is that DisplayFusion has somehow broken whatever file/path would be used to ensure the sign-in screen background displays the same image as the lock screen background - but I can't find it to fix! I have contacted DisplayFusion directly and, although they tried to help, their support team couldn't tell me what part of Windows was changed/overwritten by their software. So I'm reaching out here in the hope that someone on the forums might now where I should look to fix this, as I'm sure it must just be a dead link somewhere in the registry! I'd really not have to do a fresh/repair install unless it's completely necessary.

Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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How to fix problems with lock screen images (Windows Spotlight)

This Windows 10 Tip
highlights the Windows Spotlight setting, which automatically uploads beautiful images of scenery daily from around the world for the background on the lock screen.

What steps should I try if I’m having trouble with Windows Spotlight?
For example, what should I do if:

• The Windows Spotlight image doesn’t appear on the lock screen.
• The Windows Spotlight image doesn’t appear on the sign-in screen.
• The Windows Spotlight option doesn’t appear in my lock screen settings.
• The Windows Spotlight image isn’t changing. (It shows the same image every day.)
  

 

different lock screen and sign in screen?

Step 2b is labeled as Change the Login Screen Image, but the steps show you how to change the Lock Screen image. Step 2a is irrelevant. It only tells you how to change the desktop background.

What I want to do:
Set Spotlight as the LOCK Screen Image(s) - Done
Set the Win 10 Hero Image as the SIGN IN Screen Image - This is the one that shows after you click on the lock screen and you are able to type your password. If I uncheck "Show Lock Screen Image on Sign In Screen", it shows a solid blue background behind my Password box and user image. This is what I want to change to the Hero Image....

 

Windows spotlight images (Lock screen)

This is really dumb, but if you are like me and use spotlight for your windows lock screen images, I actually tend to like some of them alot. They rotate it seems every few days but it doesn't seem to delete them as often as it gets new ones.

With that said I couldnt find anything similar online so I made a script that would pull the files from the folder buried in app data that keeps the files. They dont have an extension normally so I append the JPG extension too them.

I create a folder on your desktop called spotlight and copy the files too it then run the conversion.

I didn't spend forever on this so be nice but otherwise;

Enjoy

Code for the crazies:
Spoiler Code: @Echo off title Spotlight Image Converter cls :checkPrivileges :: Check for Admin by accessing protected stuff. This calls net(#).exe and can stall if we don't kill it later. NET FILE 1>NUL 2>NUL if '%errorlevel%' == '0' ( goto menu) else ( goto getPrivileges ) :getPrivileges :: Write vbs in temp to call batch as admin. if '%1'=='ELEV' (shift & goto menu) for /f "delims=: tokens=*" %%A in ('findstr /b ::- "%~f0"') do @Echo(%%A setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion set "batchPath=%~0" setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion Echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" Echo UAC.ShellExecute "!batchPath!", "ELEV", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" exit /B :menu Echo Windows 10 Lock screen image converter Echo. Echo Brought to you by Solaris17 of TPU Echo. Echo This will make a folder on your desktop called "Spotlight" Echo. Echo It will copy the lockscreen images to the folder then convert them to JPEG format. Echo. Echo Let me know when you are ready. Echo. Pause goto copy :copy @echo off CLS Echo. Echo Converting and copy in progress... Echo. mkdir %userprofile%\Desktop\Spotlight > nul 2>&1 timeout 5 >nul robocopy %userprofile%\appdata\local\packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets\ %userprofile%\Desktop\Spotlight /copyall /E > nul 2>&1 ren %userprofile%\Desktop\Spotlight\* *.jpg > nul 2>&1 Echo Done!! Echo. pause[/quote]