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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Anonymous

2015-08-28T19:18:14+00:00

It's time you get over your obsession with the weather location search. Some other gadget tells you nothing about the one we're talking about here. Start doing the least of testing with an unpatched Windows installation, if you want to be taken serious, or be quiet now.
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2015-08-28T16:47:46+00:00

The two of you try to prove the nonexistent, and you're trying to hold Windows Update responsible for different things. I would like to see the black and white and TONS of posts along with the date to discuss it. The damage of DerSchuhmacher's gadgets seems to have been more severe than the regular status 404. The fact of config2021.zip being effective is evidence I must at some point have searched in the right place and not the wrong.

Regards, VZ

VZ, get off your soap box as no one has to prove that a specific Win Update caused the problem as a new updated Weather Gadget works fine and proves that some MS update caused the problem with the old version!! Case Closed end of Story! Sorry you feel so strongly that you are right but you are not, as the new Weather Gadget simply is proof that an Update is the missing factor and you just have to accept that! Just move on or tell your MS buddies that their Update failed!

MitchZZ
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2015-08-28T15:25:35+00:00

The two of you try to prove the nonexistent, and you're trying to hold Windows Update responsible for different things. I would like to see the black and white and TONS of posts along with the date to discuss it. The damage of DerSchuhmacher's gadgets seems to have been more severe than the regular status 404. The fact of config2021.zip being effective is evidence I must at some point have searched in the right place and not the wrong.

Regards, VZ
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