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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2015-08-22T20:12:12+00:00

On 6/24/2015, Volume Z posted the location of a zipped config.xml with the date hacked to year 2021. Find the post, download the file, unzip to the correct dir and the cache expiry problem is solved.

The location code is a different problem.

Regards,

T.
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Anonymous

2015-08-22T17:26:42+00:00

Frankly speaking I think so I am really very bad in my English !

This is because I clearly explained that there is NO config.xml file in the folder where it should be !

So, I will be very glad if someone could send it to my email address, thanks.

Regards,

Vladimir
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2015-08-22T17:09:34+00:00

I am not replying to anyone specific but you have to in order to post.

I have an alert set for new responses for this thread but the behavior has gotten so out of control I am removing it.

Bottom line is if you want a permanent fix, or at least as permanent as it can be at this point, you need to follow the advice of Anders and:

Change the Year on the config.xml to 2017 and then set it as a Read-Only file, and that WILL **make the Weather Gadget work again, That's it.**If you want to open and/or make a change to config.xml and resave it, yes that will TEMPORARILY solve the problem. But guaranteed the gadget will again stop working. Save yourself the monotony of continually doing a temp fix and do the above permanent fix. It has worked for me for months, except a few times where it seems the gadget stops working or can't update, which I really think is a different issue. Even then it is easily restored by restarting the gadget without having to do anything else.
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