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
    2015-05-11T20:37:48+00:00

    It will not.

    Hello Anders,

    you're living in a notion that on February 1, powers have been put in place with the aim of destroying poor little config.xml. They have not, and that's including Windows Updates. If you think deeper about the matter, the problem we are dealing with is that a file, depending on regular renewal, suddenly is being left to itself, which is right the opposite of malicious attacks or any other way of getting touched. The threat to config.xml is no outside force, but time itself, and time only. You can test what I say here yourself by removing the read-only attribute for a while, waiting for the gadget to now fail again. I assure you that it won't, from personal experience. If there were any mechanisms left to automatically influence the date modified of config.xml, this discussion wouldn't exist, because the problem would not have arisen. The trouble isn't config.xml getting touched all the time. It's the file not getting touched all the time.

    Regards, VZ

    Not Anders but I am confused by what exactly you are saying. That just changing/resaving the config.xml will fix the problem permanently? If so this is a change because I resaved the config.xml file and every time the gadget would ultimately fail again. Or are you saying that changing the date to something in the future alone will fix it?  If so I don't see how setting it to read-only can hurt. You need to clarify what you feel is the fix.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-05-11T19:29:21+00:00

    It will not.

    Hello Anders,

    you're living in a notion that on February 1, powers have been put in place with the aim of destroying poor little config.xml. They have not, and that's including Windows Updates. If you think deeper about the matter, the problem we are dealing with is that a file, depending on regular renewal, suddenly is being left to itself, which is right the opposite of malicious attacks or any other way of getting touched. The threat to config.xml is no outside force, but time itself, and time only. You can test what I say here yourself by removing the read-only attribute for a while, waiting for the gadget to now fail again. I assure you that it won't, from personal experience. If there were any mechanisms left to automatically influence the date modified of config.xml, this discussion wouldn't exist, because the problem would not have arisen. The trouble isn't config.xml getting touched all the time. It's the file not getting touched all the time.

    Regards, VZ

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-05-11T09:04:44+00:00

    Setting the date forward on the computer can have some negative effects which I'm not sure are corrected by setting the correct date and time, like ending OEM support and updates for my computer.   I won't do that again!

    Sigh ...

    Then just use a Program to change the Year!

    There are Many Many Many prgs that can change the year of a file.

    Use Google or Bing to find one = just write in the address field of your browser = prg to change date

    One is FileMenu Tools, that I use myself.

    And don't forget to make the config.xml Read-Only after changing the Year!

    Or else it will revert to NOT work again ...

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