Instructions: turn on the Windows Spotlight theme in Windows 11 Build 25169

Recently, the Windows Spotlight feature in Windows 11 can automatically update not only the lock screen image, but also the desktop wallpaper. In fact, this is an endless source of beautiful images that are downloaded from Microsoft servers. In order for the function to start updating the desktop wallpaper, you need to go to the “Personalization” -> “Background” section and select “Windows: Interesting” in the “Personalize background” item.

Fortunately, Microsoft understands that this is not a very convenient way to enable the feature, so starting with build 25169 (Dev channel), a new theme called Windows Spotlight has been introduced to the system. This theme is displayed on the main page of the “Personalization” section, so you just need to select it from the list.

What Microsoft didn’t mention in its blog post is that the Windows Spotlight theme is being A/B tested, so it should be available to all members of the Windows Insider Program. If you do not have it, then you can use the ViVeTool utility and force the Windows Spotlight theme on your device.

Instruction

1. Download the ViVeTool utility by this link. This is a new version of ViveTool 0.3.1, the details of which we described in our material.
2. Unpack the downloaded archive to any place on your computer (for example, you can create a ViVeTool folder in the root of drive C and place the files there).
3. Open a command prompt as an administrator (for example, by typing CMD in the search and selecting the appropriate item).
4. In the command line, navigate to the folder with ViVeTool using the command cd /d , then press Enter. For example: cd /d "C:\ViVeTool"
5. Enter command vivetool /enable /id:39258685 /store:both and press Enter.
6. Make sure that the command line shows the message “Successfully set feature configuration”
7. It is not necessary to restart the computer, since we used the parameter /store:both.