{"id":29006,"date":"2022-10-05T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=29006"},"modified":"2022-10-05T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:14:14","slug":"cant-set-windows-spotlight-background-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/cant-set-windows-spotlight-background-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t Set “Windows Spotlight” as Desktop Background in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you select “Windows Spotlight” from the list of background choices in the Personalization page in Windows 11 Settings, the default choice is immediately reset to “Picture”. This problem occurs if you’ve turned off background apps globally.<\/p>\n

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Solution<\/h2>\n

You must enable background apps to set Windows Spotlight as the desktop background.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Start the Registry Editor (regedit.exe<\/code>)<\/li>\n
  2. Go to the following branch:\n
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\BackgroundAccessApplications<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  3. Double-click “GlobalUserDisabled<\/code>” and set its data to 0<\/code><\/li>\n
  4. Quit the Registry Editor.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
     In Windows 10, this setting was called “Let apps run in the background.” But such an option doesn’t exist in Windows 11.<\/em><\/p>\n
    REG file to automate or deploy the above setting<\/h4>\n
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00\r\n\r\n[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\BackgroundAccessApplications]\r\n\"GlobalUserDisabled\"=dword:00000000<\/pre>\n
    Editor’s note<\/h4>\n
    Note that you may have inadvertently turned off background apps using a third-party tweaker like O&O ShutUp or other tools. The above setting corresponds to the “Prohibit apps running in the background” option in the O&O Shutup utility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    When you select “Windows Spotlight” from the list of background choices in the Personalization page in Windows 11 Settings, the default choice is immediately reset to “Picture”. This problem occurs if you’ve turned off background apps globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[869],"tags":[492,686],"class_list":["post-29006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-11","tag-settings","tag-windows-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70831,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/desktop-background-greyed-out-personalize-settings\/","url_meta":{"origin":29006,"position":0},"title":"Desktop Background Option is greyed out in Personalize Settings","author":"Ramesh","date":"January 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"When you attempt to change my desktop wallpaper, the \"Background\" dropdown option may be greyed out in Settings \u2192 Personalize. 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