Reset and Re-register Windows Spotlight in Windows 10  

Thanks Brink

Your .bat file has provided us with some neat pictures over the last few months.

Finally - something that worked. I just joined to say thank you for finally fixing my Spotlight. I've spent literally a year and a half searching for the solution, deleting files, logging in, logging out, running SFC, etc., and through it all, my Spotlight wouldn't even stay as an option - it kept reverting to "Picture".

After the latest Windows 10 Update, 1803, I had hoped it might be fixed by MS, but it wasn't. So I started another search again this morning, found the batch file at the start of this thread - and like magic, it works again.

I'm going to be very judicious about responding to the "Do you like this?" question, as I think that's what broke it in the first place.

Thanks for the tutorial and the bat file. I now have a working lock screen. I couldn't even use one of my own downloaded wallpaper for picture on lockscreen. It is finally working after around 8 months of being stuck on one picture. I know that really a thing like that is not a big deal but I really hate when I can't be in control of what I want to happen on my computer. Thank you for helping me sort out this windows bug. I made a login just to thank you. Have a great day !!

This is for 1803 and apologies if it has already been used - Brink gets the credit.
!st command line:

del /f /s /q /a "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalSt ate\Assets"

second command line:
del /f /s /q /a "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\Setting s"

Last PowerShell command line:
$manifest = (Get-AppxPackage *ContentDeliveryManager*).InstallLocation + '\AppxManifest.xml' ; Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $manifest

Mine's still working fine after the latest little update. So far, so good.