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
    2015-11-08T12:28:27+00:00

    To get it working , some answers have been to open the config.xml file then select "save as" and save it in the same directory. That essentially redates the file and after a couple of days the .xml needs to be redated again for it to continue to get the current weather.

    To have this done automatically for you create a .bat (batch) file and use task schedule  to run every couple of days updating the date on the .xml file. To create a .bat is as simple as creating a new .txt file and renaming the .txt to .bat. After you have a empty .bat file open it and insert these two lines.

    cd C:\Users\The One\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache

    copy /b config.xml +,,

    You must change the first line by changing "The One" to whatever your current user is. Save the new file to somewhere out of the way and remember where you put it. Then create a task for it to run every other day or something like that. Don't know how to create  a task ? That's what BING and google are for. look it up!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-08T18:32:32+00:00

    Thank you so much! This is the kind of problem I would have probably never managed to solve on my own and pretty soon just given up on, but you have saved me! Thanks!

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-25T15:03:36+00:00

    edit: I used the config.xml file from your .zip and of course the Weather Gadget is working.  I see the date of the file is 2021 but since I modified it when I copied it, it shows as todays date.  It also is not set to Read Only.  Do I assume the gadget will fail again at some point or is the future date of the created file enough to keep it working? Like I said below I probably should just use the config.xml from my desktop but I was lazy.  One click and I got yours, thanks for posting it.

    the file is expected to be missing on newly created user accounts. It doesn't get automatically created anymore because its online template has been removed. Download the archive

    I have a Win7 laptop that was rarely used for a while but we've gotten it out of mothballs.  Decided to add some Gadgets and sure enough the Weather Gadget doesn't work.  No problem I figured, I fixed it on my desktop by changing the date of the config.xml file to the future and making it Read Only and it has worked for six months with only the odd hiccup here or there.

    Problem is the Win7 laptop doesn't have the config.xml file in Cache.  This is definitely not a newly created User Account (active at least since 2012) so why no config.xml file?  I should say I kept the laptop updated so I am guessing some update removed the config.xml file.

    I assume I can copy the file from the desktop and put in the Cache folder.

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