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

2015-02-27T03:47:52+00:00

This is completely false, and the link you gave says no such thing. This is actually fairly easy to fix. It's just a caching error.

Open %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache in Explorer and open the file Config.xml, and then save it. Wait around 20 seconds or so, and it will work.

It's extremely bad form of you to place as the main answer something that is false. It takes only common sense to figure out that you were wrong: the gadgets still work for a lot of people. Heck, there's a hack to install them on Windows 8, and those still work. So obviously they were not disabled.

You are responding to a post that is almost two years old.

Have you read any of the recent posts? Your "fix" has been posted. A dozen times. And most important, it only works temporarily. The Weather gadget will again stop working at some point.
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2015-02-27T07:08:57+00:00

You are responding to a post that is almost two years old.

Have you read any of the recent posts? Your "fix" has been posted. A dozen times. And most important, it only works temporarily. The Weather gadget will again stop working at some point.

Yes, sigh .... one wish people could REEEAD before posting nonsense!

Some days ago I posted a 'fix' here - didn't YOU read that?

"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 ..."

My Weather Gadget is still working after that 'fix' ...
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2015-02-27T08:03:23+00:00

The fix is working just great, thanks a lot!

You just made me and my colleagues happy, we find this gadget very useful.

Thank you again for sharing!
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