Lastly, restart your PC to apply all changes.Ĩ. So first of all, you will have to disable the Spotlight feature. Click that and the location and then sign in to have it open up a Bing image search in Edge. It might find some issues and hopefully will fix them for you.ħ. If Windows Spotlight not working on your device, you have to go through four procedures. I mean, you should have a Camera icon to show where the location of that Spotlight image is taken from. Now, look for the System Maintenance troubleshooter and run it.Ħ. Click on that to open all available Windows troubleshooters.ĥ. Next, at the top-left corner you should see ‘View all’ option. In the Control Panel window, search for troubleshooters and click on the best result which should be Troubleshooting.Ĥ. METHOD 3 – Running the System Maintenance troubleshooterģ. Enter the following command: Get-AppxPackage -allusers *ContentDeliveryManager* | foreach and press ENTER to reinstall the Windows Spotlight. Search for Windows PowerShell, right-click the result, and select Run as administrator.ģ. METHOD 2 – Reinstalling Windows Spotlight (alternative method)Ģ. Right-click settings.dat and roaming.lock individually, then click Rename and name them and. Type the following path to where the Windows Spotlight settings are stored: %USERPROFILE%/_cw5n1h2txyewySettings and click OK.ġ0. Use the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run command again.ĩ. Select all the files (Ctrl + A) and hit the DELETE key to clear all old images (if applicable).Ĩ. Type the following path: %USERPROFILE%/_cw5n1h2txyewyLocalStateAssets and click OK.ħ. Use the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run command.Ħ. Under “Background,” make sure Windows Spotlight is NOT selected and change the option to Picture or Slideshow.ĥ. I have prepared few fixes for you so let’s check them out:Ĥ. In this tutorial, I’ll give you an assistance in fixing the Windows Spotlight issue.

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