Weather gadget not working- Cannot connect to service

funny bug... been around for a long time... 57 pages...

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 +,,

It is getting confusing.  Especially when people keep posting about copying files from a working machine.  While that seems to work the other fix is much simpler whether changing the values in the Config.xml file or just resaving it.

Know this is getting confusing,

why i suggested if everybody Clicks "Me To" @ 

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/weather-gadget-not-working-cannot-connect-to/6707d8b4-1a37-4412-a609-5677c9b99a7a?page=9

the solution presented by RDMullins/ reposted here by AndersWillhelmsson will jump to the top = As of this post, CURRENTLY needs to beAT 32 "Me Too" likes.

FIRSTLY, im no techie, but i find it stupid a problem first posted 2013, doesnt have this thread running with the most current posts running directly underneath, i.e. backwards (newest first)

SECONDLY, if i can follow the advice, anybody can!

3rd - great to give KUDOS if you know the orignal poster, but reposting a working solution isnt an internet crime

4. to resolve = you DON'T have to have a working Weather gadget on any other machine. Copying files may be solution, but isnt necessarily *THE* solution:
5. RDMullins/AndersWillhelmsson's solution will work, or atleast worked for me, when i didnt have a working copy elsewhere, and a ZIP files i was directed to, that solution didnt work, either.
6. I had some provisos/additions

Where i couldnt find files i had to unhide them:

easiest way for a non-techie

START\ Control Panel\ FOLDER OPTIONS\ View  ... and Tick Hidden Files

"USERNAME" isnt something you search. User name is YOU, whatever your Computer name is.

For a non techie, you dont even have to know that:

(Win7) in START \ RUN \ (click on & open up "Run")

(copy/paste) AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache (and enter)

then you will see that Config XML file every one's going on about to edit

... follow RM's advice how to modify

and SAVE

ADDENDUM... since Page 9 of this thread, my Weather app has thrown another wobbly.

I've found the solution, is you go back in to the Config XML file, .... and just SAVE.

Kudos to that person, elsewhere, too.

Hope this adds some clarity

Stephen

Good post WonderWabbit

You're full of it. I re-enabled the function of the WX gadget using the copy n paste files from a working machine method MONTHS ago.

Sting251 gives you the how to below so I won't try to impress anyone by posting the same info, just go read their post. One thing, depending on if you are running x86 or x64. In x64, some of the files eg: settings.ini will be found in the C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar folder. I had to hunt around a bit, but found what I needed. BTW, been blowing Windows up since version 1.0 was released in 1985...then getting paid to do so since 1993...worked for a major broadcast corp as regional IT Dir. with $95 million in stations on my shoulders. One HUGE argument we guys in the field ALWAYS had with the suits at corp. is..they would say.."You can't do it like that, that's not the way it works"....and I would always have to point out, "well, read that book all you want to, draw inside the lines the rest of your life, see how far you get...it's working that way whether MS intended it to or not, but it works and my systems were living proof that just cause the book says it can't be done, isn't always the gospel...