Windows Spotlight no longer working on Lock Screen

Hi there, This is a recurring issue that I used to be able to fix. I have tried every hack available online. Toggled on and off, cleared cache files, reregistered in Powershell, fix via command p...

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mccn

Copper Contributor

Jun 28, 2026

I just had Windows 11 installed yesterday, did all the upgrades and did all the repairs. Still nothing. Has anyone found a new solution, perhaps? This is the latest thread I've seen that talks about this :(

308445

Copper Contributor

Aug 21, 2026

yes
first i removed some files from
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\Settings

delete all things there, also this location
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

then restart

after this open powerShell as administrator and paste this

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

and the important thing is try to always enable onedrive cause some of this problems occurs according to onedrive shutdown and

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Windows Spotlight no longer working on Lock Screen