Windows lock screen: spotlight not working and appears grey on preview, can't pick a new lock screen, and default lock screens not working (they appea

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Hussein Berjaoui

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Hello

I am super frustrated. I've been working on this since yesterday morning and still no solution.

I noticed by spotlight was displaying the same picture for a while. So I went to check and noticed an error in my lockscreen option.

I couldn't select any of the default one, they would appear grey with a little buffering spinning circle in the middle.

Also spotlight displays the same picture (but after messing up with the registry it's displaying a blank theme in the lock screen windows).


I read many articles here.

I tried removing the items in those folders previously mentioned.

I tried changing the items to a .bak extension.

I tried fixing it in the registry (deleted the whole lock screen folder from there actually)

I tried the sfc /scannow thing and one other command that I don't remember.

Safe mode has the same issue.


I tried everything mentioned and I am truly tired. But it has to be fixed and I can't stop being worried about it.


Any clues?


MSI gaming laptop here. Somebody talked about uninstalling the gaming related programs but I wouldn't go that far because everything else was a fail...

Windows 10 (not upgraded from 8 or anything).


Also, I don't know which subtopic to put this under.

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