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

2015-03-07T12:56:30+00:00

I found the folders under:

C:\Users[Your user name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live

C:\Users[Your user name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar

Works for me!
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Anonymous

2015-03-07T15:39:26+00:00

Here how you fix this issue:

Go to "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache", open "Config.xml" (RMB -> Edit) and save it (File -> Save) without doing any changes. After 10-20 seconds restart the gadget!

Will anyone ever read a few posts before giving a fix that has already been given 20 times.

And for the 21st time. It is not a permanent fix. It will break again. The permanent fix seems to be to change the date of the file. Also posted many times.
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2015-03-07T15:58:15+00:00

Hey Sting, I'm experiencing the same issue as documented in this forum.

I would like to try your suggestion but, believe it or not, I'm having a bit of an issue trying to find the files that you identified in your post as needing to be copied.

I'm in Windows Explorer and I've done multiple searches trying to find these files but I'm not coming up with anything. Is there any easy way to find these files that need to be copied? If so, if you could let me know about that, I'd greatly appreciate it.

I'm half-inclined at this point to just go get a non-Microsoft weather gadget for my desktop after all this hassle with the Microsoft weather gadget, so I guess you could call this a last ditch effort...
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