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

2015-09-27T20:47:20+00:00

You can go to this site and find the local weather on weather map .Interactive

http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane

Why would I do that when I have a revised weather Gadget that shows me the weather for any location at any time??

You must be a newbe, so read the thread then comment! LoL
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2015-09-27T16:49:36+00:00

You can go to this site and find the local weather on weather map .Interactive

http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane
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2015-08-28T19:34:01+00:00

VZ, Thats good advise coming from someone who is obsessed with Anders! LoL I'm not the one obsessed, as you are obsessed as you think you can have the last word about a Gadget that has flustrated you because you can't figure out what the problem is! I already figured it out and told you it was a MS Update caused problem, but you can't accept reality??? Get over it, the problem is solved already and the problem now is that you are too obsessed to understand there is a fix with the new vrsion of Weather dated 1 May 15!!!!!!! Just go get you a copy and install it and get over your blind obsession with trying to figure out something that is unfixable! I thought you were smarter than that, guess I was wrong so now go away and find something else to comment on! You don't even know what testing is or when you need to test, as you don't for the Weather Gadget! LoL By the Way, what I did was a Test but not a complicated one like you are talking about! LoL Again, Problem is solved and a new revised Weather Gadget is needed and is available!

MitchZZ , Bye VZ have a nice life!
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