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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2015-07-11T04:29:01+00:00

Before you continue getting in my and other people's way with your read-only mantra, remove the attribute from your file for a week, if it's not asking too much, and acknowledge reality.

Why would I do that, and cause myself trouble?

On the Feb. 15th, I wrote this in another thread:

"And exactly a Week ago I had to RE-save my config-xml file, and today I had to do the same again, so it seems it'll be a Weekly manouver from now on to RE-save the config.xml"

Then on Feb. 19th, I wrote this in the same msg:

"This morning I simply changed the Date on the config.xml, to 2017, and then set the Attribute READ ONLY on the file, and it's still working ..."

Back then there was something that caused the Weather Gadget to stop working every 3-4 days, but since i changed the Year to 2017 on the config.xml and set the Attribute to Read-Only, I haven't had to touch that file, and the Weather Gadgets (I'm using two at the same time, for two different places) are working just fine.

So my way works, and my "mantra" stands:

ALL one has to do, is to change the Date = Year, to like 2017, on the config.xml, and then set the config.xml to be Read-Only.

The path in my system are:

C:\Users*Your_Own_Windows_User_Name*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache

And when there, just:

Change the Year on the config.xml to 2017

and then set it as a Read-Only file, and that WILL

make the Weather Gadget work again.
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Anonymous

2015-07-10T15:19:10+00:00

"Favorite" is correct - better think about your spelling of "choose". Nobody claimed YOU would find a configW7.xml. I was talking about the absence causing the problem, which obviously is true on your system, too.

Before you continue getting in my and other people's way with your read-only mantra, remove the attribute from your file for a week, if it's not asking too much, and acknowledge reality.

Regards, VZ
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2015-07-10T04:32:18+00:00

The gadget's malfunction is caused by the absence of configW7.xml. If the file is still there for IE, it also is there for the gadget. It has already been there in January and kept the gadget working until now. You can find your local copy of configW7.xml under

%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files

Please don't confuse configW7.xml and config.xml. As long as configW7.xml is locally present, everything is fine. Your gadget keeps working because configW7.xml gets converted into config.xml on a regular basis, at least on every startup. This way the date modified of config.xml is kept recent. All repair of the weather gadget is about keeping config.xml recent. You can do this by copying the file from another drive, which is why sting251's fix works. You can do it by opening the file and saving without changes, which renews the date modified (also feasible by creating an automatic task). Or you can do it by setting the date modified to the future. Replacing the file by a prepared one also works. What's totally irrelevant and does no further fixing to anything is setting the file to read-only. That's only Anders' favorite conspiracy theory.

Ahhh, you're sort of on to something here!

My "favoUrite conspiracy theory" are then correct, since I do NOT have that configW7.xml file At ALL

(Anyway not in the Path you give)!

THUS my way with making config.xml Read-Only Works!

And therefor my way below is working:

ALL one has to do, is to change the Date = Year, to like 2017, on the config.xml, and then set the config.xml to be Read-Only.

The path in my system are:

C:\Users*Your_Own_Windows_User_Name*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache

And when there, just:

Change the Year on the config.xml to 2017

and then set it as a Read-Only file, and that WILL

make the Weather Gadget work again.
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