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

2016-06-11T18:12:59+00:00

http://1drv.ms/1Rk7yXe

What in ""Shorten link" option no longer available on OneDrive" do you not understand?
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Anonymous

2016-06-11T10:17:43+00:00

The weather gadget has always depended on regular refreshing of Config.xml. This used to be provided by the presence of its online equivalent http://gadgets.live.com/configW7.xml. The mere absence of this file, which got removed circa end of Windows 7 mainstream support, causes the gadget's malfunction. It will continue to work, however, as long as a copy of ConfigW7.xml remains under Temporary Internet Files. Not only will Config.xml not be automatically refreshed with configW7.xml missing, it will also not be created on newly created user accounts.

The weather gadget has not been disabled in January 2013, as this guy on page 1 successfully claims, and in January 2015 nothing more than an online file has been removed.

Regards, VZ
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Anonymous

2016-06-10T03:53:44+00:00

Yes it does work with Windows 10

The problem seems to have something to do with the time-date stamp of the Weather gadgets "config.xml" file.

This batch file updates that time-date stamp from almost any location in Windows.

Copy and paste the text below into a new text file and then change the file extension from .txt to .bat

Run it whenever the Weather gadget crashes and then choose zip code again.

Runs best from the Windows7 or Windows10 StartUp folder.

Dont have to do anything after this is done.

Works every time

rem Touched! - Fixes Weather Gadget by updating "config.xml" file time-date stamp

cd\

cd %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache\

COPY /B config.xml +,,

If you are missing the "config.xml" a copy is here:

http://pastebin.com/N8kH9qWw

Its a bug that was never fixed because the service and support for it officially ended.

Nothing more.
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