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
    2015-04-04T19:20:15+00:00

    I COMPLETELY agree. Bad idea to try gadgets from that site.

    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.

    Did a system recovery from several days back. My weather gadget now works. However the problem with incorrect years on my Windows Update files persists. Intend to show it to a professional to see if anything can be done.

    I was advised NOT to go into the registry to see if the system date is correct. Don't even know what Registry Key to search for.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-04-04T19:24:34+00:00

    I am having the same problem for changing location different than New York, NY.  I had not had this problem before. I have the problem on each of my 3 computers. Only one computer has the Config.xml set in 2017 and read only,

    So I tried to manually change the settings on one of my computers. That pc has everything in current date and time and not set to read only, and never has had a problem with my weather data.

    <snip>

    One of your weather gadgets will now be at the location you identified. 

    It worked for me. I had 2 previous weather gadgets for cities I check regularly. I added two more gadgets and both were New York, NY.

    I did this process for one of those, and it is now changed to Washington, DC

    The weather matches the web page data for the same location.

    If I am understanding, after you do the above and manually enter the location code and do the rest you have changed it from New York to let's say Washington, D.C.  Will you still not be able to search for another location using options?  Does its still tell you "location not found" for anything else?  You would have to repeat the steps using another location code?

    If that is the case I will stay with what I have since it is on my location but keep your instructions for if I ever want to change the location.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-04-04T20:45:56+00:00

    I COMPLETELY agree. Bad idea to try gadgets from that site.

    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.

    Did a system recovery from several days back. My weather gadget now works. However the problem with incorrect years on my Windows Update files persists. Intend to show it to a professional to see if anything can be done.

    I was advised NOT to go into the registry to see if the system date is correct. Don't even know what Registry Key to search for.

    Did you change your PC date back to current immediately after updating the Config.xml file?  Or was it in the PC date in the future when those updates took place?

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