windows spotlight

Since the July/August 2026 Windows 11 (Dutch) system update Spotlight (in Windows lock-screen) works again.
Note: I did not test the Windows background.

So it wasn't the use of a local account, nor corruption of an account nor several other things and steps in these posts. In short: It wasn't us. It was indeed a bug in Microsoft's programming and they finally fixed it!

Thanks for non-acknowledging this @Microsoft and all the help and suggestions of everyone else here!

Now this bug is finally fixed these feedbacks can be finally closed: https://aka.ms/AA8iflt | https://aka.ms/AAt4ceb | https://aka.ms/AAaslmf | https://aka.ms/AAz1ary | https://aka.ms/AAzt31k | https://aka.ms/AAztamk | https://aka.ms/AAzt31p | https://aka.ms/AAzt31t | https://aka.ms/AAztic7 | https://aka.ms/AAztamr | https://aka.ms/AAzticc

It's a Windows account on all my PC's

Do you use a local account in Windows and do you use OneDrive? Then it's probably a known bug. A lot of users are impacted. Best is to report it in the Feedback Hub in Windows.

Hello, thanks for your suggestion.

This solution was working with the old versions of spotlight, but does not work with the modifications made by Microsoft end of Oktober.

Best regards.

Hello all,

I managed to fix this by re-registering the CloudExperienceHost package as well (possibly along with the ContentDeliveryManager package):

# Re-register CloudExperienceHost
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.Windows.CloudExperienceHost | ForEach-Object { Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register ($_.InstallLocation + "\AppXManifest.xml") }

# Re-register ContentDeliveryManager
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager | ForEach-Object { Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register ($_.InstallLocation + "\AppXManifest.xml") }

I am not sure if the latter is needed, but after these steps, files were getting downloaded to the Assets folder and Spotlight started working.

For completeness: I got triggered by an event in the Application Log of Windows with Source = ESENT, Event ID = 643, Task Category = "Table/Column/Index Definition" and the following message contents:

DllHost (24952,D,50,0) WebPlatStorage:  Out of date NLS sort version detected on the database 'C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.CloudExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\AppData\CacheStorage\CacheStorage.edb' for Locale 'en-US', index sort version: (SortId=00000001-57ee-1e5c-00b4-d0000bb1e11e, Version=0006030500060305), current sort version: (SortId=00000001-57ee-1e5c-00b4-d0000bb1e11e, Version=0006050200060502).

Hope this helps someone.

Tijl