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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Anonymous

2017-01-20T01:14:12+00:00

Where is the config.xml file?
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Anonymous

2016-12-04T12:35:13+00:00

HTC Home 3 is a free set of widgets for Windows like on HTC Smartphones:

http://www.htchome.org/en/
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2016-10-16T22:31:15+00:00

Its a bug that was never fixed because the service and support for it officially ended. Nothing more.

The problem seems to have something to do with the time-date stamp of the Weather gadgets "config.xml" file.

Not to be overly pedantic, but it's not a bug. In the continuum of happenstance, circumstance, and enemy action, it fits into the latter.

The gadget depends on the config.xml file, which is cached. When the cached copy is out of date, it must be reloaded from the website (gadgets.live.com/configw7.xml), from which it was deliberately removed.

The strategy of manipulating the file date serves only to keep the cached file from expiring.

T.

Taranulas: What are you talking or spouting off about?? It's simply the Case of Microsoft deciding to not update Gadgets for Win 7 that caused most Gadgets to malfunction! Updated Gadgets including those for Weather work perfect still! It's not a programming problem or a backdoor problem that needs a backdoor fix like you state, as it's a lack of Microsoft support problem!! There are similar or almost exact revised Weather Gadgets that just work perfectly, despite the lack of MS usupport! MS just wants everyone using Win 7 to pay and upgrade to buggy Win 10, which does not support Gadgets!!

MitchZZ
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