How to turn on Windows Spotlight Like What You See option

Some of the breathtaking images are brought directly to your PC screen via Spotlight feature in Windows 11/10. You can even explore personalized image results based on your interest by configuring ‘Like what you see’ option on the Lock Screen. However, at times, you may find this option missing. Here’s what you can do to restore Like what you see option of Windows 11/10 Spotlight.

Turn on Windows Spotlight Like What You See

Windows Spotlight is a feature included by default in Windows 11/10. The feature downloads images, automatically from Bing and displays them when the lock screen becomes visible. If the Spotlight image is not accompanied by ‘Like what you see’ and other informational hot-spot overlays, you’ll have to carry out the following :

1. Enable Windows Spotlight under LockScreen Options
2. Check Registry setting.

1] Make sure Windows Spotlight is selected under LockScreen Options

Windows 11

• Open Windows 1 Settings
• Open Personalization >Lock screen
• Click open the drop-down menu against Personalize your lock screen
• Select Windows Spotlight.

Windows 10

Click Start, choose ‘Settings’ and move to ‘Personalization’ section.

Now having enabled Windows Spotlight, go to ‘Lock Screen’ settings and change Background to Picture.

After that, just minimize this window and go to the following folder,

C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_<somerandomcharacters>\Settings

Select all files inside that folder, then move them to the Recycle Bin and permanently delete it.

Now, expand the Personalization > Lock Screen settings.

Change Background back to Windows Spotlight.

Close all windows, sign out, sign back in again. The Spotlight ‘Like what you see’ box should become visible now.

2] Use Registry hack

Press Win+ R to launch the ‘Run’ dialog box. Type ‘regedit’ in the empty field and press ‘OK’.

When the Registry Editor opens, go to following path address:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lock Screen\Creative

Select Creative on the left side. Now in the right side, double click on LockImageFlags DWORD (REG_DWORD) to modify its Value data.

Change the Value data from 3 to 0 and click OK.

Close Registry Editor and reboot.

Following a restart, the problem should be resolved.

Read: How to display Windows Spotlight backgrounds on Desktop.

How do you find out what the Windows Spotlight picture is?

To find what the current Windows Spotlight picture is, hover the mouse cursor on the Like what you see text in the upper right of the lock screen. This will give you information about the picture including the location where it was captured.