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
    2017-12-25T19:55:40+00:00

    Well, yep those bugs are unforeseen because no everyone or almost 80% won't use pin setup.  I use Local Account and only enable Online account when I need to post something or windows store.

    That's a pretty bold statement, and quite the number to pull out of thin air. I'm a power user and I completely understand some power users doing what you do, but I seriously doubt 80% of the average (IE not exactly tech savy) users out in the real world only use local accounts and go through the hassle of enabling online features only when they need them - which is usually always.

    I know plenty of people that use Windows Hello with facial recognition to log into their machine. And that feature requires the setup of a PIN in conjunction with the facial recogniztion. The underlying idea of all the 'connected' features of a MS Account is that they should all work together.

    On top of that, I'm only offering a possible option for other people to look at, as none of the posters on this thread seem to have even considered that the method of login could affect Windows Spotlight.

    And a bug is a bug regardless of how many (or few) people may use that particular feature.

    So thanks for your unhelpful reply.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-25T08:01:02+00:00

    Well, yep those bugs are unforeseen because no everyone or almost 80% won't use pin setup.  I use Local Account and only enable Online account when I need to post something or windows store.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-17T10:52:12+00:00

    I figured to make it work after deleting files and such, you need to disable/enable    Show lock screen background pictrure on the sign-in screen.  after you do that it refresh and connect to the server again downloading new pictures.    that's the thing I was missing.   it's not 100% dism  command and it's not the other thing.    I did everything by order.

    DISM commands

    Trying to change between Spotlight to picture/slideshow 

    Deleted the settings and other file from folder

    Re Registred the Content Spotlight command from PowerShell

    Restarted computer like 3 times each to make sure it's not the restart.

    After doing everything I tried to switch between and still didn't work.  after I switch between Spotlight and the others  I cancel and enable the check box on each of the menus , spotlight and picture, after I did that  the Spotlight showed an updated picture.

    Sounds like Black Magic Spell....3 times restart... Forget it, simply: this Windows feature does not work...

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-12-17T09:28:50+00:00

    I figured to make it work after deleting files and such, you need to disable/enable    Show lock screen background pictrure on the sign-in screen.  after you do that it refresh and connect to the server again downloading new pictures.    that's the thing I was missing.   it's not 100% dism  command and it's not the other thing.    I did everything by order.

    DISM commands

    Trying to change between Spotlight to picture/slideshow 

    Deleted the settings and other file from folder

    Re Registred the Content Spotlight command from PowerShell

    Restarted computer like 3 times each to make sure it's not the restart.

    After doing everything I tried to switch between and still didn't work.  after I switch between Spotlight and the others  I cancel and enable the check box on each of the menus , spotlight and picture, after I did that  the Spotlight showed an updated picture.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-12-17T07:34:22+00:00

    The problem will not much disgusting if this picture was not displayed. Could have go on if the pic was good.

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