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
    2015-05-03T23:52:21+00:00

    It appears that nobody is reading the part about Microsoft has DISABLED the weather and are still trying to get it to work.  Evidently they are not getting their windows updates as they should.  If they want to be vulnerable to the outside world with all of it's people that have nothing to do but wreck havoc on their computers, then let's just drop the issue and let them do it.

    That seems to be somewhat exaggerated.

    Windows updates or not, the gadget has NOT been disabled; the XML config file is no longer available from the URL hard-wired into the gadget software .

    Since the gadget parses an XML data stream and displays the results, it's not clear to me how that could be used as an attack vector, unless the malware is already in the gadget. Perhaps you could enlighten me?

    Cheers,

    T

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-05-03T20:35:43+00:00

    It appears that nobody is reading the part about Microsoft has DISABLED the weather and are still trying to get it to work.  Evidently they are not getting their windows updates as they should.  If they want to be vulnerable to the outside world with all of it's people that have nothing to do but wreck havoc on their computers, then let's just drop the issue and let them do it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-05-03T20:11:08+00:00

    Workaround for location problem on weather gadger

    I entered my postal code (zip code for US) and clicked on the search icon.  It found the code, I clicked OK and it found my city.

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