Spotlight Collection on 225XX

Hi Sibro,

Here we go again, today the collection showed up again with 5 new pictures, on 2 PCs at about the same time, they updated both the Lock Screen Pictures and the Spotlight collection.

We'll see how long it will last this time. 😎

On another subject, I saw in one of your emails that you tried out the new Task Manager.

I tried it too and I see a couple of bugs.

Perhaps we'll need another thread, but the feature is not officially out yet.

Clearly not ready for prime time. ☹

If you have more info to share, we may start a separate thread.

Regards.

I saw those bugs as well. I fooled around with it for a little while but I don't have any more info.

Thanks for the invite but I don't feel like playing with it anymore, at least for the time being.

Thanks for the reply.

I guess I'll stick to my trusted app that works flawlessly.

Maybe MSFT should buy the rights and use that instead of their own. 😁

Hi Sibro,

Maybe in the next 2 years, they'll get it to work!

They cannot even fix the problem of the PC showing correctly in the network. They had that bug for the last 3 years and still not working on almost every Build and all the Dev Builds.

On another subject, I saw in one of your emails that you tried out the new Task Manager.

I tried it too and I see a couple of bugs.

Perhaps we'll need another thread, but the feature is not officially out yet.

1. They cannot handle screen resolution changes correctly. After changing resolution, the panels are all empty without any data.

Same problem happens if you activate the new feature while the original Task Manager had "Fewer details" selected before switching to the new style. The option is not available anywhere in the new one to switch back to "More details". So, we end up getting stuck with empty panels.

2. The Settings gear that usually shows in the bottom left corner is missing when the PC has a UHD screen. It is available at standard resolution of 1920x1080, but completely gone if you use 3840x2160.

The settings gear below, is missing when using UHD screen resolution. (The panels are blank due to the 1st bug)

1920x1080:

3840x2160:

Clearly not ready for prime time. ☹

If you have more info to share, we may start a separate thread.

Regards.

Thanks for the reply.

I guess I'll stick to my trusted app that works flawlessly.

Maybe MSFT should buy the rights and use that instead of their own. 😁

Hi fg,

I don't use it but I'm trying it out of curiosity and it doesn't work at all, I don't even get the icon and the background does not math the current spotlight picture.

Windows Spotlight Collection picture

Dynamic Theme App Windows Spotlight picture

Hi Sibro,

The Windows Spotlight lock screen pictures and the Background Spotlight collection pictures are kept in the same folder, but they don't use the same group of pictures for both features.

The Spotlight collection, when it works, is a set of 5 different pictures and you can switch to the next with the interactive menu on the icon.

The first picture with the ice that you show above was part of a collection several days ago.

Currently the collections disappeared on all my machines after the update to 22543 and I'm back to the default Whitehaven picture, the interactive menu on the icon is there only with the open option, without the possibility of switching through the collection. Before the update I had the collection working for 3 days and that was a record. 🤣🤣

Not a coincidence that every time they update the set of pictures for the lock screen, they screw up or delete the ones for the background collection.

I think that is the main bug, the two features are stepping on each other.

Plus, a couple more bugs like the one that you just noticed with the icon completely missing even if you select spotlight collection, or different interactive menus on the icon that don't make any sense.

Looks to me that from the beginning with 22518, nothing was ever fixed on this experimental feature and there is no explanation on how it is supposed to work correctly.

I've never seen it working for more that 2 or 3 days, usually screwed up when they update the Windows spotlight pictures.

If they insist using the same Assets folder for both features, they need to sync the updates for both, apparently not a MS priority right now. 🤐🤐🤐🤐

B.T.W.

At least the new 22543, fixed 3 other unrelated bugs that I had on previous 22538.

Progress. 😉