How to remove clickable links on the lock screen in Win10?

dalchina · 11 Feb 2017

Searching around, it so far seems there's no way to keep Spotlight and not have these links displayed.

Therefore use one of the two ways to collect a set of Spotlight screens, and use the Picture or Slideshow mode to display them.

TJAnderson · 23 Jun 2023

This was really irritating. Finally found the solution. The problem isn't with Spotlight.
In the registry, go to following:
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager\
Make sure the following two DWord values are set to 0.

SubscribedContent-338388Enabled
RotatingLockScreenEnabled

No reboot needed. Stops it immediately.

ahmd · 23 Jun 2023

TJAnderson said:

This was really irritating. Finally found the solution. The problem isn't with Spotlight.
In the registry, go to following:
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager\
Make sure the following two DWord values are set to 0.

SubscribedContent-338388Enabled
RotatingLockScreenEnabled

No reboot needed. Stops it immediately.

Yeah, great thanks. In my case setting RotatingLockScreenEnabled to 0 removed them. But it also removes the randomized lock screen pictures. In that case it just shows a default one. It'd be nice to keep randomized images though.