How to Fix Windows Spotlight Not Working (ADMTheme issue)¶
In this post, I'll explain how to fix windows spotlight if it keeps reverting back to picture mode.
Introduction¶
Recently, I came across an issue. I love to use Windows Spotlight
for my Background and Lockscreen. But on my MSI laptop, the background settings would always revert back to Picture
with a default wallpaper.
I tried, and you should try as well, the following fixes :
- Reset and register Windows Spotlight
- Go into
Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options > Edit Plan Settings
Change advanced power settings
Desktop Background settings > Slide Show
⇒Paused
for both.
And finally I figured what was wrong. A theme was auto-applied on start-up. How ?
- Search
msconfig
on Windows :System Configuration > Services
- Search start-up applications on the
Windows Task Manager
Found nothing unusual. But the auto-applie theme was called ADMTheme
. It was related to AutoDarkMode apparently, a Windows tool to automatically switch your Windows color scheme.
Fix¶
The fix is quite simple.
- Uninstall AutoDarkMode
- Go into
C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\AutoDarkMode
and delete this folder. - Reboot
- Open a CMD as admin and type in the following command :
winget install --id=Armin2208.WindowsAutoNightMode -e
- Reboot
Now you can open AutoDarkMode, configure it to change with From sunset to sunrize (location services)
, and configure your windows background and lockscreen.
Your theme will be kept as ADMTheme
, but it'll keep your changes.
The issue was probably caused by an old update of AutoDarkMode I reckon. Anyway, it's now fixed.