Spotlight Desktop Changelog

What's new in Spotlight Desktop 2.0.1

Apr 2, 2018
  • New contributor @AnthonySlas
  • Even lower memory footprint in testing
  • Fixes existing issues
  • New integrated update system
  • Works on the latest Windows 10 Preview build
  • Still pulls image locally
  • Installed package < 1 MB
  • More features to come

New in Spotlight Desktop 1.3.3 (Apr 2, 2018)

  • Finds new registry locations (currently three) for the new Windows Insider builds
  • Using Pyinstaller to package the python script
  • SpotlightDesktop Launcher is used to open the application in a hidden window and opening SpotlightDesktop.exe directly will show the console window with the output of the paths and when the script detects a new image location
  • Due to some of the issues with accessing registry locations from the script directly, a compiled version RegLookup has been used to make registry queries for the two new registry locations where the spotlight image could be

New in Spotlight Desktop 1.2.1 (Apr 2, 2018)

  • Installer now includes the needed dependencies for the python application
  • Minor formatting changes to the code
  • Now using Advanced Installer with uninstall support, fixes #4
  • The installer if for both 32bit and 64bit processors.

New in Spotlight Desktop 1.2 (Apr 2, 2018)

  • Updates every minute
  • Changes background only if the Spotlight image changes
  • Uses even less memory

New in Spotlight Desktop 1.1 (Apr 2, 2018)

  • Schedule changed to run every hour
  • Installer now closes the application automatically before updating and overwriting files