Windows 10: Windows Spotlight not showing at startup

Windows spotlight didn't work for me even after trying those fixes mentioned on numerous sites. tried reinstalling several times to get it work and failed.

and then i decided to not login to my online Microsoft account and stay with a offline account and that fixed the problem partially.

however now i can see the image change if i press Windows + L or lock my pc using start menu or go to settings.
but its shows the same default image from windows every time i turn on my PC
my router is connected and turned on at windows startup






Any help would be appreciated. thank you.

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Lock screen background stuck on Spotlight picture

When I press Win + L it shows me the one I picked out but on startup I see the Spotlight background

 

Windows 10 spotlight lock screen wallpaper is not present in sign in screen. Plz. Let me know the remedy

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My pc is windows 10 pro 64 bit. Creator update is installed. I have applied the method to set windows lock screen as windows spotlight. But nothing change. I have already updated my windows to its latest Build. when I lock screen manually by WIN+L it
locks and shows spotlight picture in lock screen. but at initial startup when pc starts pre login and sign in screen shows no spotlight wallpaper, it shows only desktop wallpaper. plz do needful. A screen shot picture of Windows 10 version and build is currently
installed on my computer attachedand personalization settings attached.

 

Hi, what's your Windows build please? Windows key + R, winver.

Regard Spotlight as rather fragile and easily offended. Once it's working, seems to carry on ok.

Assuming you are using the FCU (1709), these may be of interest:
Spotlight is broken - Windows 10 Forums
Reset and Re-register Windows Spotlight in Windows 10 Customization Tutorials

 

I suspect not. The reason being that the behaviour @jasonx3 describes is exactly what I saw in CU (1703) and AU (1607).

Regardless of setting Spotlight as the lock screen and 'show lock screen background picture on sign in screen', the picture at start up was always whatever was selected as the lock screen's Picture setting (and if you'd never selected a Picture, that was the default 'cave' picture. Incidentally, in 1709 the default picture is now a mountain lake.)

Since updating to Fall Creators Update (1709) for the first time ever I see the Spotlight picture at start up.

Jasonx3, run Winver and check what version you have, if it's 1703 (or earlier) what you describe seems to be normal behaviour.

 

Sometimes with 1703 you will see a non-Spotlight picture on booting, occasionally a spotlight picture but without the option to 'Like' it. Hence my question as to your Windows build.

 

You're lucky - I don't recall ever seeing the Spotlight picture at start up. It was always very unpredictable exactly what I'd see. 1709 is consistently the Spotlight picture at boot.

 

Yes I'm on Version 1703 (OS Build 15063.726)

On previous attempts to fix i tried both clearing the cache folder and re-registering the spotlight using Powershell
and ended up not working

 

I ran the updater and now it's downloading the "Feature update to Windows 10, version 1709" let's see if this fix the issue.

 

That's quite a big step just to get Spotlight at start up *Smile

Spotlight has always been 'fragile'. You may still need to bookmark this tutorial for future use...

Reset and Re-register Windows Spotlight in Windows 10

 

will do

 

New problem appeared after updating to 1709. my start menu and notification stopped working. going back to older version

 

It looks like upgrading to 1709 and running Brinx's .bat file did the trick.