windows 7 weather gadget cannot connect to service

Anonymous
2013-01-13T15:55:15+00:00

original title: windows 7 weather gadget

I have windows 7 sttarter  ... and my weather gadget become unable to run and

tell me "cannot connect to service"    

please any help

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Anonymous
2013-01-14T07:04:15+00:00

Have you checked whether your Internet Explorer is not set to Work Offline.

Update:

Microsoft has DISABLED the weather and currency gadgets via a recent Security Update, due to concerns over the vulnerability associated with these gadgets running on your computer. You can read more about it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2719662 . Adjusting your computer's settings and all these other "suggestions" people are making, will NOT work. The function has been REMOVED from the operating system. It has also been removed from the Windows 8 operating system. There are "theorists" that either agree that there is a security issue within the gadgets or Microsoft just does not want to support gadgets (usually third party software) and thus, has disabled them in Windows 7 and eliminated them in Windows 8.

Thanks to DaveNYC for the Info. Spread the word because many people are facing this problem just like you.

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Anonymous
2015-04-05T07:58:24+00:00

My reward for messing around with the system date is that now all of my Windows Updates are coming in with the 2017! year. Never again. I had immediately returned the system date back to current but every Windows Update comes in with the 2017 year. Do not know how to fix this.

My god ... HOW can the Win Updates be '2017'?  When no such updates even exists ... we're at 2015 now.

Explain!

HOW and WHERE do you see the year 2017 on the Updates?

Start Win Update, click 'View Update History' on the left side, read the dates in the 'Date installed' column.

(Click ON the 'Date installed' column to sort by date, click several times to chose ascending or descending).

IF your computer/system time is set to todays date, then what you're saying is simply impossible, you're looking somewhere else, or you're intoxicated; by joy, some fumes or Equal ...

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-03-06T11:12:17+00:00

    O my god why didn't I think of that? Great idea, I changed it the way you sugested and so far haven't had to mess with it weekly 

    thanks for the input. 

    To fix the Weather Gadget, all you have to do is go to:

    C:\Users\YourOwnWindowsName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache

    Now change the Date on your computer to be 2017.

    Open ( >>Rightclick > Edit ) ( Or use Notepad ) and RE-save the config.xml file.

    Rightclick config.xml and chose Properties, check READ-ONLY, click OK.

    Look to see that the Date on the config.xml now is set to the year 2017.

    Set the Computers Date back to todays date.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-03-06T08:54:30+00:00

    To fix the Weather Gadget, all you have to do is go to:

    C:\Users\YourOwnWindowsName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache

    Now change the Date on your computer to be 2017.

    Open ( >>Rightclick > Edit ) ( Or use Notepad ) and RE-save the config.xml file.

    Rightclick config.xml and chose Properties, check READ-ONLY, click OK.

    Look to see that the Date on the config.xml now is set to the year 2017.

    Set the Computers Date back to todays date.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-03-06T03:54:12+00:00

    OK, go to the sub directory of the above links:

    http://gallery-live.com/sidebar-gadgets/

    Put the word weather in the search box.  You will find numerous weather gadgets of all types come up in the results, over several pages.

    Scroll down and try some out.  Click on the blue Download box, not the icon, which sometimes brings up the "item not found" message.  If they're all bringing up the same "item not found" message, then, well, we're not too sure what the problem is.  Something is not right.  Clear your browser's cache to start with, and restart your browser.  

    However, we can still try a fix on the Windows 7 weather gadget.  

    Let us know how you go.

    Sarah

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