Windows provides personalization features to make the user experience better. You can personalize and set backgrounds, change the lock screen, set themes, modify font, and start and taskbar modifications as per your requirement. Sometimes when you set the personalized background, few users have complained that they are receiving ms-settings:personalization-background Error on restarting the computer. Let us see how we can fix ms-settings:personalization-background Error.
Method 1: Reregister all default apps
Step 1: Press Win+R, type powershell and click OK.
Step 2: Type the below command and hit Enter.
Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
Step 3: Wait for the execution of the command. Once it is completed, recheck whether the issue is reolved.
Method 2: Update Windows
Step 1: Press Win+R, type ms-settings:windowsupdate and click OK.
Step 2: Click on Check Updates to check is there any update available.
Note: Check and install update KB3036140 (if not installed).
Step 3: If any updates are available, click on Install Now to install the updates.
Step 4: Once updates are installed restart your system and recheck whether the issue is resolved.
Method 3: Run SFC Scan
Step 1: Click the Start button, and type cmd to find Command Prompt. Open it in Run as Administrator mode.
Step 2: Type the below command in the command prompt and press Enter.
sfc /scannow
Step 3: Wait for the command execution to complete. Once it is completed check whether the issue is resolved.
Method 4: Restore Health using the DISM tool
Step 1: Click on the Start button, type cmd, and open the command prompt in administrator mode by selecting Run as Administrator.
Step 2: Type and execute two commands one after the other. Type the command and hit Enter.
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
Step 3: Wait for the execution of the commands to finish. Now verify whether the issue is resolved.
Method 5: Resetting Windows Store Cache
Step 1: Press Win+R, type WSReset.exe and click OK.
Step 2: There will be a popup confirming the reset option on the windows store. Click OK to continue.
Step 3: Once reset is complete, recheck issue is resolved.
That’s it!! Hope the issue is resolved now. Comment and let us know which method worked for you. Now you should be able to use the personalization feature without any issues. Hope the article was informative and useful. Thank you for reading!!