Weather gadget not working- Cannot connect to service

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original title: Weather gadget not working !!

I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 - bit and my weather gadget is not working, it is displaying a message "Cannot connect to service .

I have also tried by turning off firewall and antivirus but it still don't works for me .

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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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To all having this problem, the following worked for me:

After eading all kind of solutions, I changed the config.xml file according instructions and then I got connected but only to my own location (in my case Amsterdam). Tried everything else, no results, till I only give the exact zip code for the place I like to see the weather in the search menu and guess it worked, then I did the same on my computer in Greece (via teamviewer) and there it worked as well.

I hope it will help you as good as it did for me.

Ron

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2016-05-14T08:13:25+00:00

MitchZZ

Jaro,

Its not available on the web believe me as I've tried to find it also again! I have no way of sending it to you without an email address, so that's why I put it on MS Cloud Onedrive in a shared folder & file that anyone can download it from! Its not protected or restricted and I just tried to download it and it works, so it must be something at your end that you have to do to DL it? Its been updated by someone and works great on any Vista or Win 7 OS!

Just keep trying or contact Onedrive and ask for help!

MitchZZ,

this is for you, wish you nice reading ;-) and btw., thanks for your help..

Jaro
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Anonymous

2016-05-08T15:52:44+00:00

If i'd be asked or pleased by somebody else with problems to download the file from shared link to share it temporarily in some alternative way, i would't have least problem.. instead of trying to persuade somebody about his fault...

particularly in case of his interest in that shared file, that's IMO help as original design of forum communication.

MitchZZ, i don't want to disturb you anymore, therefore i please you for the last time, can you share the file temporarily through ge.tt or other, for you convenient way, and provide a download link please? I tried what i could, but on every device available, there was an error message.

Jaro
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2016-05-06T21:17:29+00:00

I gave up.. now there states "this link doesn't work anymore - contact the owner for a new link".. tried with 2 more PCs, one of them was W7.. , so this is too much for me, sorry. Can you share it in any other way please? The file is around 1 MB, that shouldn't be a problem, oh my god :((

MitchZZ, can you temporarily upload the gadget through gett or other cloud, please?
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