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

2015-04-08T08:41:31+00:00

There is avery simple solution

Download and extract the Following zip file

after that use only once "hava_durumu_tamir.exe"

that is all if it doesn't work use Msn gatget

<Removed due to Microsoft COC>
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2015-04-06T20:06:42+00:00

Thanks Scott Albrecht

I have both problems with the weather gadget with the NY location showing up this weekend April 5, 2015. Looking up the AOL weather location and inserting it in the Windows Sidebar system.ini file and saving it fixed the gadget for now. Clearly Microsoft wants the Gadgets gone but they are integral part of my Windows 7 desktop and I have spent hours trying to keep them working.
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2015-04-06T15:50:16+00:00

Greetings Bru20,

There is no reason to make the config.xml file R/O. It does not get changed when the gadget fails.

The search function is, at this time, BROKEN! no funciona! Temporary or permanent? Who knows?

I have not detected any outgoing queries, and I expect the query site is down/dead/broken. Does anyone know where the queries should go?

T

Making it Read-only was part of the "future date fix" that was posted by someone else. They gave a reason why it needs to be that way and since the gadget continues to work and does not fail I don't see any harm in leaving it that way. Again I will say if you haven't done the "futrure date fix" I would recommend it. Once done there is no need to frequently resave the Config.xml.
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