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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2015-03-30T18:52:57+00:00

This time, I used Attribute Magic Free, to set the date ;to 2017 and read only on Config.XML; a small download. I scanned it with a malware program before and after unzipping. Quick and easy with the graphical interface. The Winodws weather gadget (not app) is working even though 25871 is still frozen at 28º. Another small bug,, both weather gadgets move around when I restart the gadgets or the computer, but I can live with that.

I closed both MSN and Windows weather gadgets and reinstalled, so now they are working and staying in place.
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2015-03-30T15:03:57+00:00
shazam! it worked. follow this simple seven step process and it should work. good luck!
1. C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache\Config.xml
2. right click config.xml file, properties, uncheck read-only box, apply, ok
1. change computer date to 2017
2. right click config.xml file, edit
3. add a space to a line then remove the space, save
4. change computer back to correct date
5. right click config.xml file, properties, check read-only box, apply, ok
ps thank y'all for the good advice
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2015-03-30T09:06:48+00:00

I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH!!! IT WORKED! WOOOHOOO! :)

You're answering to a more than two year old post ...

"In reply to sting251's post on March 6, 2013"

It will NOT continue working after a Windows Update.

Instead set the config.xml file

to be READ-ONLY - after changing the Date

to 2017 - according to my instructions,

that's been posted here over and over ...

READ back and you'll find my instructions

on how to change the Date

and how to set the file to READ-ONLY.

Doesn't ANYone ever REEEAD BEFORE posting nonsense ??
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