How to Fix Windows 10 Spotlight Issues Easily and Effectively [MiniTool Tips]

There Are Some Common Windows 10 Spotlight Issues

If you are using Windows 10, you can utilize the Windows Spotlight to download and set Bing images as the background on the Lock screen automatically. This feature makes you always get a fresh look every time when you sign in.

However, Windows Spotlight can’t work well all the time, you may encounter Spotlight stuck in the same image Windows 10 or Windows Spotlight isn’t working issue.

Although there is no option to reset Windows Spotlight in the Settings app, you still can fix the common Windows 10 Spotlight issues with two simple workarounds.

In the following part, we will show you the detailed steps to fix the issues.

How to Fix Windows 10 Spotlight Issues

In general, there are two options for you to solve common problems with Windows Spotlight:

• Reset Windows Spotlight on Windows 10
• Reset Windows Spotlight settings using PowerShell

How to Reset Windows Spotlight on Windows 10

If Windows Spotlight stuck in the same image or Windows Spotlight isn’t working, you can follow these steps to clean the downloaded images and reset the settings to make the feature working again.

Disable Spotlight Feature

Open Settings app and choose Personalization. Then, click on Lock screen. Next, use the Background drop-down menu and then select the Picture or Slideshow option.

After these steps, you need to continue the following steps to clear the assets, reset the settings and then enable the feature again.

Clean Spotlight assets

Open Start and then search for Run and choose the top result. After that, you need to type the following path and press OK:

%USERPROFILE%/AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

Select all the files and press the Delete key to clear the old images (if applicable).

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Then, to reset the Windows Spotlight settings, you need to do the following operations:

Reset Stoplight settings

Step 1: Open Start and enter the Run window. After that, type the following path and click OK:

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

Step 2: In the Settings folder, please right-click the settings.dat and roaming.lock files individually, then click the Rename option and change their names to settings.dat.bak and roaming.lock.bak.

Step 3: Restart the machine.

The last move is to re-enable the feature using the Settings app.

Enable Spotlight feature

Go to Settings > Personalization > Lock screen. After that, please use the Background drop-down menu and then select the Windows Spotlight option.

After all of the above steps, you can go to check whether the Windows 10 Spotlight issues are solved.

How to Reset Windows Spotlight Settings Using PowerShell

If Windows 10 Spotlight issues still happen, you can use PowerShell to reset Windows Spotlight settings.

Disable Spotlight feature

Go to Settings > Personalization > Lock screen. After that, please use the Background drop-down menu and then select the Picture or Slideshow option.

Them it’s time to use PowerShell to reset the Windows Spotlight settings and enable the feature again.

Reset Spotlight settings

Open Start and then search for PowerShell. Next, right-click the top result and select the Run as administrator option. After that, type the following command and press the Enter button:

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

Then, you need to restart the computer.

To make Spotlight work normally again, you still need to re-enable the feature.

Enable Spotlight feature

Go to Settings > Personalization > Lock screen. Then, use the Background drop-down menu, and select the Windows Spotlight option.

Still, you need to go to check whether Windows 10 Spotlight issues are solved successfully.

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