Weather gadget not working- Cannot connect to service

It is getting confusing.  Especially when people keep posting about copying files from a working machine.  While that seems to work the other fix is much simpler whether changing the values in the Config.xml file or just resaving it.

Know this is getting confusing,

why i suggested if everybody Clicks "Me To" @ 

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/weather-gadget-not-working-cannot-connect-to/6707d8b4-1a37-4412-a609-5677c9b99a7a?page=9

the solution presented by RDMullins/ reposted here by AndersWillhelmsson will jump to the top = As of this post, CURRENTLY needs to beAT 32 "Me Too" likes.

FIRSTLY, im no techie, but i find it stupid a problem first posted 2013, doesnt have this thread running with the most current posts running directly underneath, i.e. backwards (newest first)

SECONDLY, if i can follow the advice, anybody can!

3rd - great to give KUDOS if you know the orignal poster, but reposting a working solution isnt an internet crime

4. to resolve = you DON'T have to have a working Weather gadget on any other machine. Copying files may be solution, but isnt necessarily *THE* solution:
5. RDMullins/AndersWillhelmsson's solution will work, or atleast worked for me, when i didnt have a working copy elsewhere, and a ZIP files i was directed to, that solution didnt work, either.
6. I had some provisos/additions

Where i couldnt find files i had to unhide them:

easiest way for a non-techie

START\ Control Panel\ FOLDER OPTIONS\ View  ... and Tick Hidden Files

"USERNAME" isnt something you search. User name is YOU, whatever your Computer name is.

For a non techie, you dont even have to know that:

(Win7) in START \ RUN \ (click on & open up "Run")

(copy/paste) AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache (and enter)

then you will see that Config XML file every one's going on about to edit

... follow RM's advice how to modify

and SAVE

ADDENDUM... since Page 9 of this thread, my Weather app has thrown another wobbly.

I've found the solution, is you go back in to the Config XML file, .... and just SAVE.

Kudos to that person, elsewhere, too.

Hope this adds some clarity

Stephen

It is getting confusing.  Especially when people keep posting about copying files from a working machine.  While that seems to work the other fix is much simpler whether changing the values in the Config.xml file or just resaving it.

Agreed. None of the PC's in my house ( 2 laptops, 2 desktops) had working gadgets. The fix I expanded on is what worked for all 4 of our machines. When simple doesn't work, you can choose to leave it or try another method.

James Colvin

2/14/2015

Dear Karen Deep,

     I and my wife have the same issue: "Weather gadget not working- Cannot connect to service".

I see by your the date of your  MS Community Question, that this probably began sometime in January 2015, last month. This same problem occurred to us in January 2015. I have a Dell Laptop, and she has an Asus Notebook. I have Windows 7 Home Premium OS, she has Windows 7 Starter OS. We use the same wireless router, via AT&T here in Mississippi.

     I see by other replies here that this is apparently Microsoft's doing, and being that my wife and I have different PC machines and OS's, I am betting that there's nothing wrong with all three (3) of our "machines", yours, mine, or my wife's.

     I like you, am always concerned when something goes wrong with my PC, as I cannot afford to pay for Microsoft Support, or Dell Support Services.

    Just thought that you'd like to know that you are not alone with this concern. I would add that you can get other FREE "real time" weather from Web-sites. I have three (3)  THE Weather Channel via www.weather.com  , AccuWeather via  www.acuuweather.com  , and WeatherBug via www.weatherbug.com  . I did not "install desktops, toolbars, etc. with any of these three, I just went to their websites, and added them to 1st: by  my PC's Start list, and next to my Desktop. Two of them have very few adds, The Weather Channel, and AccuWeather, but WeatherBug has some but they are not in the way of using it and quickly go away when you choose it's "apps" or "settings". You can easily set-up all three to give the REAL TIME weather for your home town, and all three work great.

     Please let me know if this helps you as, " everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it" - LOL ! Sincerely yours ma'am, James Colvin

PS- We are both just leaving MS's weather gadget on our Desktops in the event that MS fixes the problem, as I have had the same issue before (about a year or so ago) and MS fixed it and it began working again until January of 2015.