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Description
Windows Spotlight is getting stuck when using ADM. This has occurred across at least three computers and a few Windows 11 builds. Spotlight was working fine (changing image) until installing ADM. Have tried setting Personalization > Pick a Wallpaper to Enabled and type: Windows spotlight to no effect.
Expected Behavior
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Log Data
Commit Hash, Version and Windows Build
- Commit:
cf7a0fe - Service/App:
10.4.1.1 - Updater:
3.1.4 - Shell:
1.3.3.0 - .Net:
7.0.5 - Windows:
26100.2314
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There's currently an issue where Spotlight is not getting enabled properly via theme files on the latest Windows versions. I'm not exactly sure why it happens, but it might tie into theme state synchronization issues that appear to be more prevalent in newer Windows versions.
I'm currently working on improving the reliability of wallpaper switches. I'm not sure when this is done, but that could potentially improve this issue here.
Wallpaper switching reliability seems to have regressed compared to 23H2, but there were no changes on the API or ADM, so it's a bit weird.
Looks like I have the same problem 😟 The Restore didn't work for me either.
Looks like I have the same problem 😟 The Restore didn't work for me either.
I'm not sure this is even fixable. ~~If spotlight resets when an update to the Windows theme is made in later Windows versions, then there's no way to make this work again.~~
~~There is a possible solution for bypassing changing themes altogether, but we don't know if that resets spotlight yet.~~
Update: I am pretty sure I found a solution. Stay tuned.
@Jay-o-Way this is a good use case for why the ability to expose / hide certain features for specific Windows builds in the UI would be fantastic to have. I'd rather temporarily disable features that don't work anymore than keep them in if there's no reasonable hope of fixing them any time soon.
Please try the latest beta build 10.4.3.0. I've found a registry key which controls the spotlight state, and together with the theme switch instruction I'm hoping to improve the reliability of spotlight enabling correctly.
Okay good news. I uninstalled ADM, then set the background to something else than Spotlight. Then restored it via the cmd/powershell command. Then restarted the computer and set Spotlight back on. Now it's working again!
I'll try this fix for if this doesn't work. As an update, my isp switched my wifi to my new place early so I haven't been able to download the latest build. So I won't be able to test it for the next while.
I'd add to this and say on the latest beta at the time of writing (11.0.0.4).
I had recently reinstalled Windows (about a week ago) and installed this app. Spotlight switching walls seemed to work before, but not anymore.
I can only assume maybe Windows is resetting some sort of timer every time the theme changes from light to dark, but that's just speculation on my part lol.
I'd add to this and say on the latest beta at the time of writing (11.0.0.4).
I had recently reinstalled Windows (about a week ago) and installed this app. Spotlight switching walls seemed to work before, but not anymore.
I can only assume maybe Windows is resetting some sort of timer every time the theme changes from light to dark, but that's just speculation on my part lol.
The change was unfortunately not carried over to the 11 beta yet as the branch-commit did not include the fix yet. However, I'm working on bringing that over now. Beta 11.0.0.14 should release soon with this commit cherry picked.
The timer should reset yes, but it shouldn't generally prevent spotlight from switching
I had recently reinstalled Windows (about a week ago) and installed this app. Spotlight switching walls seemed to work before, but not anymore.
@Artemis1-0 Could you make a screenshot of
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DesktopSpotlight
I have a suspicion that MS ships different versions of spotlight on the same Windows buildsI have one computer where Spotlight is just broken, regardless of if I set it with ADM or not and it looks like this:
Right click is also not working
The machine that works (and where ADM correctly triggers the spotlight images that also cycle:
Both machines are 26100 with UBI 4946
Apologies, just saw your comment. This is what those keys looks like:
I will need to use my computer more now to see if that update helped (currently on 11.0.0.19. I have had spotlight switch a couple times, but I was turning on my computer roughly after sunset every night anyways haha.
Thanks for everything!!
@Spiritreader Sorry, completely forgot about this as well. Here's the screenshot
The theme switching itself works but the wallpaper gets stuck. I hate the fact that the second I choose a custom picture the theme suddenly becomes windows spotlight!
Can confirm, when the theme file set's windows spotlight to 0 (disabled) the theme itself in the settings app won't show the spotlight icon while the wallpaper icon will.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4934beeb-754d-4247-89d2-0f258f206cb7
So what I did is manually copy the wallpaper path of the windows dark path (%SystemRoot%\web\wallpaper\Windows), created a folder called bliss and copied the wallpaper pictures there. After modifying the path in the theme file with notepad++
I applied the themes in settings. It still shows up as windows spotlight but the thumbnail is generated and theme switching works!