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
    2015-02-20T09:16:08+00:00

    Found a batch file on another thread on this forum to make the gadgets start working again at a single click.

    (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_7-desktop/weather-gadget-not-working-cannot-connect-to/6707d8b4-1a37-4412-a609-5677c9b99a7a?page=19)

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    Here's a fix to make all gadgets working again if they can't connect.

    First, create a batch file "fixgadgets.bat" containing the following two lines:

    chdir %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache

    copy /b config.xml +,,

    The copy command in the batch file simply updates the last modified time on the sidebar configuration file so that it "looks" like it's been changed. It has NOT been changed... 

    [If you prefer you can use Windows Powershell instead of the DOS copy command to update the file modification time; the batch file would look like this:

    chdir %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache

    powershell $v = get-date; Set-ItemProperty -Path config.xml -Name LastWriteTime -Value $v   ]

    These two batch files are IDENTICAL in function. However, the 2nd requires powershell; the first works on any Windows machine.

    Then each time sidebar gadgets stop connecting (currency and weather do this sometimes) do the following:

    1. Close ALL gadgets (or kill sidebar.exe using 'end process tree' from the task manager).
    2. Run the batch file you created above.
    3. Restart sidebar (run 'sidebar' from Start->Run) or start individual gadgets (by right-clicking on the desktop, select 'Gadgets', and dragging the gadgets you want onto the desktop).

    Voila!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-02-20T07:52:54+00:00

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-02-20T03:43:55+00:00

    OK, here's a link to the config.xml file on our system for the weather gadget.   Win 7, 64 bit.  

    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jw1sgx9wj6vigsj/AAAvYips38nVW8agAugpXVYLa?dl=0

    Hope this helps.

    Excellent and thank you. The weather gadget stopped working again today. it doesnt last long, does it?

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