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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2015-05-15T13:28:40+00:00

Instead of copying from another computer, just copy from another user's profile on the same computer.

If you don't have one, log in as another user to create one, open the weather gadget in that profile. Then log back in as the first user and copy the files.
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2015-05-15T07:35:19+00:00

Hello Anders,

there is no indication whatsoever for Windows Updates doing any changes to the weather gadget.

They're leaving config.xml perfectly alone.

As I said, you and everyone can test this. Name me a mechanism to automatically refresh the date modified, and I tell you an alternative fix for the problem. In expectation of Windows Update to set that date back to present (which is what making it revert to not working would mean, with a delay of 72 hours, of course), put an expired ("not working") config.xml into the Cache folder. Install all Updates you possibly can and wait for the gadget to return to working, as according to your theory it would have to.

Regards, VZ

Someone else mentioned that it might be Win Update that messes with the date on the config.xml, but feel free to find another cause of why the Weather Gadget suddenly stops working IF one do not set the config.xml as Read-Only after changing the Year to 2017.

First time I changed the date to 2017 - might have been back in February 2015 - it worked for like a week or so, then the Weather Gadget stopped working again.

After I on March 1 set the config.xml as Read-Only after changing the Year to 2017, it has never stopped working.

So, as said, feel free to do or think what you like, but my way works.
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