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Currency gadget stopped updating - Win 7 Home Premium 32 IE11
This happened around noon yesterday. The other gadget I use, Weather, works fine. Tried fixes (?) turned show gadgets off/on (R click on desk top, View), checked currency.xml - no auto scale... All from googling 'IE11 breaks gadgets'without success, so trying here. |
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Currency gadget stopped updating - Win 7 Home Premium 32 IE11
On 10/31/2014 4:44 AM, Keith wrote:
This happened around noon yesterday. The other gadget I use, Weather, works fine. Tried fixes (?) turned show gadgets off/on (R click on desk top, View), checked currency.xml - no auto scale... All from googling 'IE11 breaks gadgets'without success, so trying here. About a year ago MS instructed all Windows users to quit using gadgets and sidebar because they had been discovered to be a security risk. They even issued a "FixIt" that disabled the gadgets and sidebar. |
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Currency gadget stopped updating - Win 7 Home Premium 32 IE11
Keith,
Based on my personal experience, the problem is IE11. Because of some compatibility issues with a couple of required websites, I originally upgraded from IE9 to IE11 and all my gadgets stopped working. In addition, it didn't solve my website access issues. I than downgraded to IE10 and all is well. You may want to consider replacing IE11 with IE12. Unfortunately, at some point when IE10 no longer is supported, the era of the gadgets will be gone forever. I face that issue when it happens. BTW, I'm using Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, but I doubt that it makes any difference in this case. -- Richard "Keith" wrote in message ... This happened around noon yesterday. The other gadget I use, Weather, works fine. Tried fixes (?) turned show gadgets off/on (R click on desk top, View), checked currency.xml - no auto scale... All from googling 'IE11 breaks gadgets'without success, so trying here. |
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Currency gadget stopped updating - Win 7 Home Premium 32 IE11
Hello richard,
I installed IE 11 when it was released and, after setting display from 118% to 100%, gadgets have worked OK. It was after a few hours use (yesterday) that I noticed that exchange rates were not being update although the weather was. Same today, Currency updated 1 day ago and the same problem now on desk top machine, Win7 Home Premium 64 bit. Rebooted router (sometimes this fixes problems accessing some websites) but nada. Keith, Based on my personal experience, the problem is IE11. Because of some compatibility issues with a couple of required websites, I originally upgraded from IE9 to IE11 and all my gadgets stopped working. In addition, it didn't solve my website access issues. I than downgraded to IE10 and all is well. You may want to consider replacing IE11 with IE12. Unfortunately, at some point when IE10 no longer is supported, the era of the gadgets will be gone forever. I face that issue when it happens. BTW, I'm using Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, but I doubt that it makes any difference in this case. "Keith" wrote in message ... This happened around noon yesterday. The other gadget I use, Weather, works fine. Tried fixes (?) turned show gadgets off/on (R click on desk top, View), checked currency.xml - no auto scale... All from googling 'IE11 breaks gadgets'without success, so trying here. |
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Currency gadget stopped updating - Win 7 Home Premium 32 IE11
schreef in bericht ...
On 10/31/2014 4:44 AM, Keith wrote: This happened around noon yesterday. The other gadget I use, Weather, works fine. Tried fixes (?) turned show gadgets off/on (R click on desk top, View), checked currency.xml - no auto scale... All from googling 'IE11 breaks gadgets'without success, so trying here. About a year ago MS instructed all Windows users to quit using gadgets and sidebar because they had been discovered to be a security risk. They even issued a "FixIt" that disabled the gadgets and sidebar. In that case they better instruct users to quit using Windows. -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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Currency gadget stopped updating - Win 7 Home Premium 32 IE11
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:44:56 +0000 (UTC), Keith
wrote: This happened around noon yesterday. The other gadget I use, Weather, works fine. Tried fixes (?) turned show gadgets off/on (R click on desk top, View), checked currency.xml - no auto scale... All from googling 'IE11 breaks gadgets'without success, so trying here. I use qlock http://www.qlock.com/ Gives me rates at the end of the day (it's for home use, not for people that play the market) and world time anywhere I want. Sets you back US$ 15 though. The freeware version only does world time. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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Currency gadget stopped updating - Win 7 Home Premium 32 IE11
Keith wrote:
This happened around noon yesterday. The other gadget I use, Weather, works fine. Tried fixes (?) turned show gadgets off/on (R click on desk top, View), checked currency.xml - no auto scale... All from googling 'IE11 breaks gadgets'without success, so trying here. See if helps to delete the cache folders. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...b-f91dcd00c93a |
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Currency gadget stopped updating - Win 7 Home Premium 32 IE11
I've managed find the 'supplier' of this gadget and it works fine on both
my lap and desk tops:- http://www.thefreewindows.com/downlo...8757CEE4%21367 Hello Keith, This happened around noon yesterday. The other gadget I use, Weather, works fine. Tried fixes (?) turned show gadgets off/on (R click on desk top, View), checked currency.xml - no auto scale... All from googling 'IE11 breaks gadgets'without success, so trying here. |
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Currency gadget stopped updating - Win 7 Home Premium 32 IE11
Hello Keith,
I've managed find the 'supplier' of this gadget and it works fine on both my lap and desk tops:- http://www.thefreewindows.com/downlo...tps://onedrive .live.com/download?resid=61014F748757CEE4%21367 PS, No it doesn't! Fails to update but has a link to an online currency converter. Hello Keith, This happened around noon yesterday. The other gadget I use, Weather, works fine. Tried fixes (?) turned show gadgets off/on (R click on desk top, View), checked currency.xml - no auto scale... All from googling 'IE11 breaks gadgets'without success, so trying here. |
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My 1st post, Im not sure where to write. But, I'd just like to add that, as well as my Currency Gadget not updatingfor 6 days now, on all 3 pc's, I would like to add also that one of my W7 Home Premium laptops, has IE11 and the sidebar gadgets have always worked fine. Ive heard too that IE11 wont work the gadgets, but mine do, and on my Mums W8.1 with IE11, I installed Gadgets Revived, to restore the sidebar. And that works fine too. So, I dunno what is what. I just hope the Money Exchange rate comes back to life. BrentR, ChCh NZ |
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Currency gadget stopped updating - Win 7 Home Premium 32 IE11
Please see this message:
" Free Currency Converter Gadget Currency Converter is a free, elegant and very convenient gadget you can place on your desktop to learn automatically updated (through MSN) exchange rates in several currencies. The initial view features 2 currencies, but you can add more selecting from a list. As is known, this gadget does not support some conversions (e.g. it does not support Philippine Pesos), but it includes a link to the On Line Converter where most probably you will find the conversion that you miss. Note (November 2014): It seems that MSN decided to stop this service, and the gadget won’t update exchange rates anymore. You can download and try it, but most probably it will remain useless. However, a new currency converter, not depending on MSN, will be published on this page the next days. I hope you enjoy it! " at: http://windowslivegadgets.com/galler...rrency-gadget/ Hello Keith, This happened around noon yesterday. The other gadget I use, Weather, works fine. Tried fixes (?) turned show gadgets off/on (R click on desk top, View), checked currency.xml - no auto scale... All from googling 'IE11 breaks gadgets'without success, so trying here. |
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Currency gadget stopped updating - Win 7 Home Premium 32 IE11
On 11/6/2014 5:06 AM, Keith wrote:
Please see this message: " Free Currency Converter Gadget Currency Converter is a free, elegant and very convenient gadget you can place on your desktop to learn automatically updated (through MSN) exchange rates in several currencies. The initial view features 2 currencies, but you can add more selecting from a list. As is known, this gadget does not support some conversions (e.g. it does not support Philippine Pesos), but it includes a link to the On Line Converter where most probably you will find the conversion that you miss. Note (November 2014): It seems that MSN decided to stop this service, and the gadget won’t update exchange rates anymore. You can download and try it, but most probably it will remain useless. However, a new currency converter, not depending on MSN, will be published on this page the next days. I hope you enjoy it! " at: http://windowslivegadgets.com/galler...rrency-gadget/ Hello Keith, This happened around noon yesterday. The other gadget I use, Weather, works fine. Tried fixes (?) turned show gadgets off/on (R click on desk top, View), checked currency.xml - no auto scale... All from googling 'IE11 breaks gadgets'without success, so trying here. It's not a gadget but the Oanda web site is very convenient. A very large number of conversions is available: http://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/ -- Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD) Extraneous "not." in Reply To. |
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