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

2015-04-10T14:08:00+00:00

What version are you running? There is no Properties when you right click the gadget and in control panel there is no Clock.
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2015-04-10T04:51:45+00:00

The gadget is in search of gadgets.live.com/configW7.xml, as it has done for a long time.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com:443/Forums/windows/en-US/af8955e5-e47a-4fb9-bb0f-48d2ed47a582/weather-gadget-not-working-httpgadgetslivecomconfigw7xml-switched-of?forum=w7itprogeneral

ConfigW7.xml used to be the file that enabled constant automatic refresh of config.xml. The recent absence of configW7.xml is the reason for the failure of the weather gadget because the offline version of it, config.xml, falls prey to expiry after 3 days, unless steps of manual refreshing or timestamp modification are taken. Moreover, the lack of an online configW7.xml is the cause of nonexistence of a config.xml in fresh installs of Windows 7. There just is no more pattern for the to-be-cached file around.
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Anonymous

2015-04-08T12:21:22+00:00

Why does the gadget keep trying to connect to gadgets.live.com every minute?

That can't be good...

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