Windows 10 Spotlight - Strange behavior after Fall Creators Update

Anonymous
2017-10-18T11:26:00+00:00

My setting for the Lock Screen was "Picture". I've tried to change it to "Windows Spotlight"  but after several seconds this setting is automatically re-set to "Picture" back?  Does this funcionality works?

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-10-29T18:28:01+00:00

    FIX

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

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-29T19:58:02+00:00

    there is no Spotligth in the list of app, but just turning this switch on fixes this problem. now spotligth works ok, thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-18T11:41:09+00:00

    Open Start, type: regedit

    Right click Regedit

    Click Run as administrator

    Navigate to the following key

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Creative\S-1-5-21-826134325-3229497062-2753576501-1001

    this will be your first user, if you got more change on all of them:

    Double click LockScreenOptions

    Change the Value data to 4

    Click OK

    Exit the Registry then restart.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-12-08T16:41:16+00:00

    I fixed the issue both on my laptop and desktop instantly.  I tried first the deleting the 2 files and then all assets and re re registr the app but didn't work on both. 

    then I tried 

    dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth

         

    dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

    and the issue was fixed instanlty after a restart. 

    I've tried to run DISM about three weeks ago, I've tried to run it with fresh downloaded copy windows.iso as Source also. No observable result. Tried to run it again today (black magic?), does not work either. No problem found during DISM run.

    I thought I would update my situation even though It doesn't look like it will be much help as I think you have already attempted these steps:  I believe the following is the sequence of trouble shooting steps I took:

    1. First, I attempted Fix 1 and Fix 2 in this link.  Didn't work.
    2. The next step for me was Re-registering Windows Spotlight.  Didn't work.
    3. Finally, I went into: Settings panel >  Personalization > Lock Screen. Under the Backgroundoption, choose Picture and set a picture as default lock screen background.  I then navigated to:  C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_<characters>\Settings

    I then deleted the roaming.lock and settings.datfiles.  Lastly, I returned the default lock screen setting back to Windows Spotlight.  Bingo! that was what fixed it for me.  

    Been working ever since.... essentially since my last post.  Hopefully it will continue.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-10-31T20:43:19+00:00

    You don't need create a new local account. You should a turn on Background Apps (Settings>Privacy> Background Apps) then Windows Spotlight will be OK - not reset to "Picture". I tested it Win10 Home 1709, compilation 16299.19

    You can disable the apps below, if you don't need them.

    Solution:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJMPhsmhZSE

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