Windows Spotlight

Greetings, friends. Afer many months trying to solve the issue of Windows Spotlight not working on the lockscreen, and trying literally everything covered in dozens of forums, and even contacting Microsoft Support at least 3 times, I managed to resolve the problem as follows:

• First of all, in my case, I had a Microsoft account, and I use it to log into Windows. I did not have a local account.
• To solve the problem with Spotlight, I had to convert my Microsoft account into a local account. To do this on Windows 11, how can get guides on the web, but it is a very straightforward process.
• Once I converted my account into a local Windows account, I used the following command in Windows Powershell as a admin to reset the Windows Spotlight. You will need to reboot so Windows can recreate the appropriate folder:
• Get-AppxPackage ContentDeliveryManager | Reset-AppxPackage
• After the reboot, I used the good old Windows Powershell command to register Windows Spotlight once again:
• Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers ContentDeliveryManager | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppxManifest.xml"}
• And... after waiting for about 10 or 15 mins, issue was solved! the assets folder showed new files (it used to be empty) and FINALLY the Windows Spotlight on the lockscreen returned, after being MIA for months and months on my computer!

As a final observation, this worked for me, and my hope is that it will work for anyone else being bugged by this Windows Spotlight not working on the lockscreen issue. Hopefully Microsoft can look into what may cause the feature to break if a Windows account is used on the computer. That's it, folks! let me know if my solution works for you too! hopefully it will! Cheers!

Greetings, after several weeks of troubleshooting with all possible solutions available on the Internet and even reaching out to the Windows support team, the only thing that worked for this issue was to reinstall Windows via an official Windows 11 25H2 ISO, downloaded directly from Microsoft and selecting the option to keep installed apps and documents. This finally took care of the Spotlight blue screen and other images no being downloaded. Hopes this helps someone out there! cheers!

This is very Microsoft one of the Win10/11 issues. I've tried a lot of steps and instructions. The only way finally worked for me was to re-register Content Delivery Manager.
Run in the PowerShell as admin:

Get-AppxPackage -Name Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" -Verbose}

Hello,

Try to re-register Spotlight feature with this command in PowerShell:

Get-AppxPackage -Name Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" -Verbose}

If issue still persists, refer other suggestions in this fix:

https://www.kapilarya.com/fix-windows-spotlight-not-working-in-windows-11

Let us know if this helps!

Note: Included link in this reply refers to blog post by a trusted Microsoft MVP.

1

Go into the Settings App - Personalisation - LockScreen

Set Background to picture and choose one

2

Open Windows Explorer.

Paste this into the address bar and press Enter

%USERPROFILE%\appData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

Delete everything in the resulting folder

Paste this into the address bar and press Enter

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local \Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\Settings

Delete everything in the resulting folder

3

Then right click your Start Button, choose Powershell (admin)

Run (copy and Paste) this command and hit Enter

Get-AppxPackage -allusers *ContentDeliveryManager* | foreach {Add-AppxPackage "$($_.InstallLocation)\appxmanifest.xml" -DisableDevelopmentMode -register }

Restart your PC

4

Go into the Settings App - Personalisation - LockScreen

Set Background to Windows Spotlight