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
    2015-08-28T01:22:16+00:00

    Hey Mitch,

    VZ doesn't know what he's talking about...don't pay any more attention to him. I know I have given up. The very day I did the updates, it quit. Of course I tried to mess with it and nothing. Then I did a search, like I do on anything I want to learn about. There it was in black and white. Like I said, I never knew I should have printed the stupid announcement but there you go. He probably doesn't believe there's a God either. lol

    Anyway, there were TONS of posts the same date I was searching.   The ONLY problem with the announcement was that it never stated which update had this stop action/ reconfiguring whatever in it. Some people kept saying just uninstall it. Well that day there was like 20+ updates and even if you did remove it, the thing evidently did not get re-written to the old script/code, whatever. So finally, I just started subscribing to some threads and quietly watching and waiting. Then when this one got so confusing, and the arguing, I jumped in.

    The way I finally fixed my weather thing today was a combination of uninstalled gadgets platform from programs and got running the 3 .dll files that are mentioned on another site running, using the zip config file from the earlier post and the Fix-it that I found on softpedia. Also, did the restore gadgets and finally got a working weather and still non-working currency. But it's all back now, weather is ticking along and still searching for possibilities on a couple other boards about currency.

    But, like I said, this weekend I am going to crash course myself into making my own gadgets and get er done.

    But arguing with him about why it quit working is just going to drive us insane. I know what was posted back then and so there's no way he can sway my confidence because I read it with my own 2 eyes, as well as many others and we discussed it then. So he can believe anything he cannot see is not there! hahaha

    Only thing to focus on is if someone wants this stuff back and running and finding the solution that works. Between yesterday and today, I got mine back and so can someone else. :-)))

    And it has inspired me to take on a new quest of making some of my own gadgets that I will find useful and take pride in the fact that I made them myself. :-))))

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-08-28T01:01:12+00:00

    VZ, Repeat after me!  Yes it can as I just showed you in the last Post! You're in denial!  :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-08-27T23:47:13+00:00

    Could it be some MS Update that disabled the old one

    No, it can't.

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