Speed of desktop theme syncing

Hi all,

For those of you that use Microsoft accounts on multiple Windows 10 machines like I do, do you experience a delay in the amount of time it takes for one of the machines to notice that you chose a different desktop theme (from the store) on another machine?

Seems like with me, sometimes the change can happen as soon as I log into the 2nd computer (and I can’t think of any reason why it shouldn’t), but other times, it literally takes days or up to two weeks.

For example, a couple of weeks ago, on my gaming machine at home, I chose an autumn-oriented desktop theme. But it wasn’t until yesterday, here at work, where I’m on my personal laptop, where the theme finally kicked in.

Weird.

Conversation 4 comments

  • Brad Sams

    Premium Member
    16 October, 2018 - 1:17 pm

    <p>It's random for me…sometimes the wallpaper syncs in seconds, other times it's up to a week.</p>

    • ErichK

      Premium Member
      16 October, 2018 - 1:25 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#353857">In reply to brad-sams:</a></em></blockquote><p>Let me tell ya, if I could vote 15 out of 10 on the severity scale in the feedback hub, I would. ;-)</p>

  • Kevin Costa

    16 October, 2018 - 3:48 pm

    <p class="inserted">Super normal. Sync reliability is not a top priority for Microsoft. I have problems too, mostly with Edge sync and sometimes theme sync. Windows 8's sync of IE bookmarks and themes worked very well. Everything in the system that have any UWP element embedded into it (like Win10 have a lot today) has something not fully functional, sadly.</p><p class="inserted">I really don't bother anymore with this half baked crap. I just accept it… </p>

    • ErichK

      Premium Member
      16 October, 2018 - 7:51 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#353913">In reply to Kevin_Costa:</a></em></blockquote><p>Yeah, I hear you. Sometimes things work, sometimes they don't. For what it's worth, I just searched for this issue in the Feedback Hub, and upvoted one of the results along with adding a comment.</p>

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