windows 7 weather gadget cannot connect to service

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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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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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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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2013-03-07T02:48:52+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.

This is incorrect. The service is still available. For some reason it appears the weather and currency gadget were corrupted on some machines especially X64 systems. If you follow the following steps quoted from another post, your weather gadget will start working"

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A) Copy the following files and folder from a Windows 7 machine with a working stock weather gadget to a flash drive or network file share:
1. %localappdata%\affected user\local\microsoft\windows\windows live\services\cache\config.xml (just copy the file)
2. %localappdata%\affected user\local\microsoft\windows\windows sidebar\cache\168522d5-1082-4df2-b2f6-9185c31f9472 (copy entire folder which should contain one or more xml files)
3. %localappdata%\affected user\local\microsoft\windows\windows sidebar\settings.ini (just copy the file)
B) Paste (OVERWRITING if necessary) the copied folder and files into the same locations on the machine whose stock weather gadget is not working.

C) Drag the weather gadget back out and this time it should be working

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2013-03-07T14:34:00+00:00

QUOTE

A) Copy the following files and folder from a Windows 7 machine with a working stock weather gadget to a flash drive or network file share:

This resolved the problem on my weather and currency gadgets, but the paths were slightly wrong.

affected user\appdata\local\microsoft\windows live\services\cache &

affected user\appdata\local\microsoft\windows sidebar\services\cache

thanks Jim4008!
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Anonymous

2015-02-02T22:58:14+00:00

Thank You, Jim4008.

Simple, and as soon as I pasted the files and overwrote the existing files, the weather gadget began to work.

This worked for me, using

%userpath% \AppData\local\microsoft\windows

So, on one of my PCs it is as follows:

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache\Config.xml

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Cache168522d5-1082-4df2-b2f6-9185c31f9472

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Settings.ini

On my other PC, it was a different "username" rather than Admin

When I discovered the gadget issue, I thought there was an issue with the source, but my laptop was fine. Several other locations offered solutions but they were way off.

I use the gadget all day long, as it's one of my sources for data on a journal style blog, and it's more up-to-date than the website.
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