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
    2015-04-05T16:59:23+00:00

    Upon clicking on View update history n Windows Update

    Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2676562)

    Installation date: ‎4/‎3/‎2017 3:46 PM

    Installation status: Successful

    Update type: Important

    Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2872339)

    Installation date: ‎4/‎3/‎2017 3:46 PM

    Installation status: Successful

    Update type: Important

    Don't be so quick to doubt an honest reporter. There are four (4) more just like the above two. I said that I had BRIEFLY, MOMENTARILY changed the system date to 2017 to follow another individuals solution [from this Micosoft Community site] re the Windows 7 Weather Gadget. I plan to see a pro when I have the time. Right now, it's not causing any havoc.

    When I restored my system to an earlier date, the Weather Gadget now works, but the Updates continue to come in at 2017!

    Checking out of this thread. The chat is getting a bit too rough for me...

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-04-05T21:53:18+00:00

    Upon clicking on View update history n Windows Update

    Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2676562)

    Installation date: ‎4/‎3/‎2017 3:46 PM

    Installation status: Successful

    Update type: Important

    Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2872339)

    Installation date: ‎4/‎3/‎2017 3:46 PM

    Installation status: Successful

    Update type: Important

    Don't be so quick to doubt an honest reporter. There are four (4) more just like the above two. I said that I had BRIEFLY, MOMENTARILY changed the system date to 2017 to follow another individuals solution [from this Micosoft Community site] re the Windows 7 Weather Gadget. I plan to see a pro when I have the time. Right now, it's not causing any havoc.

    When I restored my system to an earlier date, the Weather Gadget now works, but the Updates continue to come in at 2017!

    Checking out of this thread. The chat is getting a bit too rough for me...

    Nothing strange with those dates since Updates apperantly came in and where downloaded and installed while you had your date set to be 2017, don't you understand that simple fact ?!

    Make sure your computers date is set to Todays date, and the NON-problem is solved.

    Isn't the important thing that you DO get the Win Updates, and not the date Windows think it installed them ... ?!

    Next time you 'mess' with something on your computer/Windows, just disconnect from the internet first, and the NON-problem can't happen.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-04-06T13:53:34+00:00

    Gadgets have been discontinued.  Although I can still use some of the gadgets.  The reason is in the link below.

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/gadgets

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