Weather gadget not working- Cannot connect to service

Anonymous
2013-01-14T14:07:43+00:00

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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Anonymous
2013-01-15T09:19:57+00:00

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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Anonymous
2015-05-29T15:03:04+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2015-03-17T21:58:01+00:00

    3/17/15

    Don't know how MS sabotaged my weather gadget this time.  I NEVER install Updates and reverted back to IE 10 as eleven messed up the gadgets, when using 125% screen size.  Why would a installing a browser affect gadgets?  And now this!  I won't go into the list of problems Updates have caused.

    I deleted a couple of the files that were suggested, and even though I have reinstalled the the weather gadget the files have not been replaced / fixed.  I even went into turn Windows features on and off, and unchecked Windows Gadget Platform.  Restarted.  Checked it again.  NO GO!

    I currently have the MSN weather gadget installed, and as someone previously stated, it is nearly identical to the MS weather gadget.

    Does anyone have a currently working MS weather gadget or am I just wasting time trying to fix this issue?

    The problem is Microsoft (Windows)!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-03-17T20:51:53+00:00

    I may be asking a simple maybe stupid question but reinstating these taken down for security reason gadgets and finding ways (workarounds) to have them back on your computer isn't that defeating the security purpose? Doesn't that put your system back into a high venerability situation? I do expect something that Microsoft will not do but should do and that is "FIX IT"! I mean it is Microsoft and they should have no reason or problem making all this right for their customers who want what they paid for and that is the now missing desktop gadgets safe and secure.

    WHY do you at all CARE, just never mind, YOU don't have to do anything, just leave your non-working Gadget, it's as simple as that.

    Those of us who still wants a working Weather Gadget just changes the Date to be Year 2017, and then set the config.xml file as READ-ONLY, and we'll have a Working Weather Gadget, at least for now.

    IF someone hasn't 'attacked' me for all these years I've had Win7, so why would anyone do that now, and I'm not worried anyway since i have a Router with a Firewall, and I also use Kaspersky Internet Security.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-03-17T07:34:13+00:00

    I may be asking a simple maybe stupid question but reinstating these taken down for security reason gadgets and finding ways (workarounds) to have them back on your computer isn't that defeating the security purpose? Doesn't that put your system back into a high venerability situation? I do expect something that Microsoft will not do but should do and that is "FIX IT"! I mean it is Microsoft and they should have no reason or problem making all this right for their customers who want what they paid for and that is the now missing desktop gadgets safe and secure.

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