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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2015-02-03T07:37:15+00:00

I still cannot get this to work, tried the fix, but then I cannot search for the city I want the weather for?

Even on a new install of Windows 7, the weather gadget no longer works. Everything stopped on 1 Feb 2015. Any comment from Microsoft?

Tried the MSN Weather 2.0 gadget, which works, but the weather shown does not match the site it goes to?
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2015-02-03T18:34:33+00:00

This fix still works fine. For some unknown reason, "Weather" stopped functioning again (a year later!) on both my Win7 x64 PCs (probably in the last 48 hours, Microsoft - if you're reading). Using a (still working) x86 Win7 ("Starter Edition") Netbook's files, I was able to recover both .... but I had done so before.

A note: I first attempted to recover one of the x64 PCs using the files from the other x64 because it looked like "Weather" was working. It wasn't - despite still showing a populated icon. Very strange.

Thanks again!
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2015-02-03T18:48:34+00:00

This fix still works fine. For some unknown reason, "Weather" stopped functioning again (a year later!) on both my Win7 x64 PCs (probably in the last 48 hours, Microsoft - if you're reading). Using a (still working) x86 Win7 ("Starter Edition") Netbook's files, I was able to recover both .... but I had done so before.

A note: I first attempted to recover one of the x64 PCs using the files from the other x64 because it looked like "Weather" was working. It wasn't - despite still showing a populated icon. Very strange.

Thanks again!

Can you upload the fixed files, or email them to me {removed} @outlook.com?
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