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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2015-10-11T22:43:45+00:00

thanks. still doesn't work. I reconfigured everything before and was fine until my hard drive crashed and pc guy reinstalled Windows7.

now that I saved the txt file as config as all files rather than text doc, still "cannot connect to service" and I know it worked well before!! I think pc guy left something out, I actually told him to make sure he copied the original gadget file but I don't think he did because this time I can't get it to work.
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2015-10-11T21:37:07+00:00

In the "Save as" dialog box of notepad, go to "Save as type" and select "All files" instead of "Text document"

http://www.genealogy-web-creations.com/images/wc-css-save.jpg

and name the file Config.xml. If you leave "Text document" selected, the file saved will be .txt - which doesn't work.

Regards, VZ
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Anonymous

2015-10-11T20:42:30+00:00
What if you put this in
```
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache\Config.xmland it comes up with error tone, not foundbut you can get to this:
```
%localappdata%\microsoft\Windows Live\services\cache

putting a note pad with the xml code in this place doesn't work, correct?

how to get it to turn into ---cache\config.xml ???

I had it working then needed a new hard drive and can't seem to get it to work now.
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