cannot change my lock screen picture.

Windows . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.19045.X64/32

I have been trying to fix this for days with no luck. thought i would post here before another round of googling.

When I choose a picture for lock screen all is good in the settings gui.

But when i restart some oil on canvas looking picture that was not even an option becomes my lock screen pic.

If i choose "Windows Spotlight" the picture I have been getting comes up in the settings gui. but then the drop down box just goes back to "picture" rather than "windows spotlight" or "Slideshow"

this is what i am getting

dalchina said:

Hi, presumably you have consulted this:
Change Lock Screen Background in Windows 10

Note:


That's one thing that might be hindering you.

Another possibility:
Enable or Disable Changing Lock Screen Background in Windows 10

I note you have Win 10 Pr (Pro?)
You might have a group policy set preventing change. See the above tutorial.

Can be really worthwhile consulting the huge searchable Tutorials section.

Hi, thanks for reply. Yes i have been over the tutorial you linked. Something is broken. I think i will do an inplace repair/upgrade later.

dalchina said:

You can choose to have lock screen and login screen show the same image.

yes, on my primary desktop i have this but the desktop in question not so.

Can I prepare an inplace upgrade ISO on one windows 10 pro machine and use it on another win 10 Pro machine ?

I feel like such an idiot spending this much time on this.

I did a inplace upgrade and it did not help. I tried all kinds of resetting lock screen function.

Now I have no picture.
this is the desktop in topic. The bottom pic is my primary desktop with all the same settings and it has a picture on the lock screen.




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Odd thing is that when I manually lock the screen using Windows key+L i get the picture. So it is like when i am restarting or starting the lock screen is not really a lock screen. I have to click on it either way to get the login window.