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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2015-08-27T15:35:37+00:00

Thanks for the info, unfortunately something is still not right. I am even missing the icons in the gadgets section now for the weather and currency-not sure how they got deleted-they were showing even though they weren't working. I also cannot get the sidebar to work. I even tried the instructions to restart the the 3 .dll services and restarting computer, reinstall windows gadgets again and still nothing. The missing gadgets were supposed to show back up too, by doing that.

I found a site that teaches the basics of making your own gadgets, so I just went into programs and unchecked the gadgets platform, restarted the computer and this weekend, I am going to just make a few of my own gadgets and sidebar.
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2015-08-27T15:31:42+00:00

Hi,

Strange story - this site is down, all of my gadgets installation disappear from my system and the Firefox won't run this morning. So times later I am going to find next one solution which is here : http://win7gadgets.com/weather/weather\_center.html

Hope this time no one from MS stuff would like to shut down this site and uninstall my weather gadget just because this is a violation of my privacy !!! Did you know, MS guys, what that mean ?!

Regards,

Vladimir

Vladimar, Just installed this new or revised version of the original Weather gadget on WIn7 and it works flawlessly! The file "weather-win7gadgets-com.gadget" updated 1 May 2015 has no problem searching for locations by name, so it is the perfect replacement for the old win7 version that came with Win7 when it was first released! Finding it is difficult but it works great if you can! Seems every site wants to hijack it and give you their software? Hey VZ, what do you say to the fact it works great with the revised Weather gadget?? Could it be some MS Update that disabled the old one or are you still in denial??

MitchZZ
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2015-08-27T10:15:25+00:00

Hi,

Strange story - this site is down, all of my gadgets installation disappear from my system and the Firefox won't run this morning. So times later I am going to find next one solution which is here : http://win7gadgets.com/weather/weather\_center.html

Hope this time no one from MS stuff would like to shut down this site and uninstall my weather gadget just because this is a violation of my privacy !!! Did you know, MS guys, what that mean ?!

Regards,

Vladimir
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