Windows Spotlight Picture Not Changing

Aug 22, 2019 Windows Spotlight not working. There may be plenty of reasons, why your Windows 10 machine is not fetching new wallpaper from Bing. If you are facing this issue, Windows Spotlight not working, lock screen won’t change. Resetting Windows Spotlight settings & preferences most probably fix the problem for you. Reset Windows Spotlight on Windows 10. Windows Spotlight is a Windows 10 feature that displays various images on your screen after locking your computer. The images are automatically downloaded from Bing. You can mark whether you like a particular image or not. Depending on your preferences, Windows Spotlight will show you more or fewer images of that kind.

Jan 18, 2016

I'm a bit confused about the terminology of background pictures, themes and Spotlight picture. When the computer hasn't been used for a specified time, my screen savers start. If I go back to the computer and move the mouse my screensaver goes away and another Windows picture fills up the desktop. I believe this is called the Spotlight but I could be wrong.
This Windows picture used to change. Since I did a clean install of Windows 10 this picture does not change. How do I get it to change? I used to see several different pictures in random order.

Windows 10 spotlight Pictures are loved by many windows 10 users, but recently some users have reported that the spotlight pictures on the Lock screen are not changing anymore. They have no idea or clue why they have stuck indefinitely on a particular picture and not changing anymore.

Fix 1 – Using Powershell and Registry editor

1. Click on start button and then click on Gear shaped icon to open settings.



2. Now, Click on Time & Language.

Windows Spotlight Picture Is Not Changing

3. Click on Region from Left menu and then select United states in Countries or region list.

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4. Now, in settings panel click on personalization.

5. Now, click on Lock screen in the left menu.

6. Now, Choose Picture as background from the dropdown list in the right.

7. Now, go to explorer and copy and paste the path given below to address bar.

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8. Delete all the files in the folder. Do not worry , they will be recreated automatically.

9. Search powershell in the windows 10 search box and right click on powerhshell icon and choose run as administrator.

10. Copy and paste the command given below in the powerhsell window and hit enter to execute the command.

11. Search regedit in windows 10 taskbar search and click on the registry editor icon to open it.

12. Browse to the following location in the registry editor.

13. Delete everything you get after expanding Creative leaving only s-1-0-0 folder.

14. Restart your computer.

Windows spotlight image not changing

15. Now, Go to Settings > Personalization > Lock screen again.

16. Select Windows spotlight.

17. Now, your Lock screen will keep changing windows spotlight pictures. It will take some time for files you deleted ins step 8 to get created automatically.

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Saurav is associated with IT industry and computers for more than a decade and is writing on The Geek Page on topics revolving on windows 10 and softwares.

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