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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2015-02-06T02:24:34+00:00

I see this is an old post but I was ripping out my hair trying to fix this. Downloaded your zip file and it is working again. Thank you so much for posting this. Hopefully other people find this thread. =)
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2015-02-06T03:21:26+00:00

Thanks wolfpaws for posting your success. I too have downloaded the fix zip but I am not going to try it any time soon. enough messing with this for now.

I will say that the other fix of finding working weather gadget, copying certain files, etc. tedious at best, will now not work for me anyways. I found this morning he update that killed it hit at work now also.

so it HAD to be the most recent update. BUT I'd rather have security holes filled than a weather gadget. I'm reasonable and sensible like that.

I'm just going to google the weather or turn on the weather channel if I'm really desperate. plus you can always call the weather service! :) they still have that!

weather gadget is clearly not a MS priority, and if it breaks when security is fixed, well, MS is plugging the right hole in the dyke. No quick solution is perfect. Fixing weather gadget before sending out security patch would bite them big in the a.... let's be reasonable folks. u want a gadget or a virus!??!

uninstall the patch and take your chances. but I tried that and it did not fix it, just made my puter scramble to get patched back up again asap. our puters are set up to try to keep us from being complete fools, fortunately.

and just like people, I have not found a perfect anything...

I have to use 3 browsers to function these days. each has a unique set of issues. none are totally usable. ALL the forum sites are full of people with same problems as me, and no obvious, easy, or viable solutions. and no updates ever fix it. whatever. I cant spend my whole life crying. so easiest and fastest wins. if it's broken, switch weather source, browser, whatever!

cheers! - b
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