Change lock screen background

Question

I have been trying to find help on changing the background on the lockscreen in windows 10 but have failed to find any. It says some settings are hidden or managed by your organization. Does anybody know how to change it so I could change the background picture.

And before anybody says it, I don't want to change diagnostic data to full as  I've seen some suggesting. That should have no impact on my desire to simply change the picture displayed when the screen is locked.

And I have seen the suggestion to reset the Local Group Policy Editor to default, but I can not find gpedit.msc in my files.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

The next option I recommend you try then is a repair upgrade:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki...

Answer 2

I tried solution 3 but there is no PushNotifications under C omputer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PushNotifications

only Internet Settings.

Solution 5 tells me to go into third-party applications like bitdefender etc change the settings.

I am not using any applications like that.

Answer 3

Could you try solutions 3 to 5?

https://appuals.com/how-to-fix-some-settings-ar...

Answer 4

Thanks for the ridiculously quick reply.

I did what you said and got this back.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "& {$manifest = (Get-AppxPackage *immersive

controlpanel*).InstallLocation + '\AppxManifest.xml' ; Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $manifest}"

GOT THE BELOW LINES BACK

= : The term '=' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the

spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

At line:1 char:5

• & { = (Get-AppxPackage *immersivecontrolpanel*).InstallLocation + '\A ...

+     ~

    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (=:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

cmdlet Add-AppxPackage at command pipeline position 1

Supply values for the following parameters:

Path:

Don't know what any of it means but think something went wrong.

Answer 5

Press Windows key + X

Click Windows PowerShell (Admin). 



At the command prompt, type the following, hit Enter the restart. 



PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "& {$manifest = (Get-AppxPackage \*immersivecontrolpanel\*).InstallLocation + '\AppxManifest.xml' ; Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $manifest}"

Restart, then try changing the lock screen background.