Meteo gadget not connect

Hi to everybody, with enormous sorrow I have seen that from a few days the
meteo
of the gadgets (sidebar) he doesn't connect more for of the vulnerabilities
it says
Microsoft... you Know how to keep connection so that everything works?

Fabrizio

Fabrizio wrote:
Hi to everybody, with enormous sorrow I have seen that from a few days
the meteo
of the gadgets (sidebar) he doesn't connect more for of the
vulnerabilities it says
Microsoft... you Know how to keep connection so that everything works?

Fabrizio


You can't.

--
A

On 08/02/2015 8:15 AM, Fabrizio wrote:
Hi to everybody, with enormous sorrow I have seen that from a few days
the meteo
of the gadgets (sidebar) he doesn't connect more for of the
vulnerabilities it says
Microsoft... you Know how to keep connection so that everything works?

Fabrizio


Follow this suggestion, the Weather Gadget thread is full of
misinformation. Microsoft did *not* disable the Weather or Currency
gadgets from working. If you have disabled gadgets, then all gadgets
would have stopped working not just the Weather or Currency gadgets. In
fact, all of those gadgets wouldn't even be able to run anymore.

Weather gadget not working- Cannot connect to service - Microsoft Community
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...9b99a7a?page=1


Yousuf Khan

On 08/02/2015 8:34 AM, FredW wrote:
On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 14:15:30 +0100, "Fabrizio" wrote:

Hi to everybody, with enormous sorrow I have seen that from a few days the
meteo
of the gadgets (sidebar) he doesn't connect more for of the vulnerabilities
it says
Microsoft... you Know how to keep connection so that everything works?

Fabrizio

Oh no, not again .....

Please read the thread about *Weather Gadget* in this newsgroup.
(77 answers)

What you ask is no longer possible.

Not true. The Weather Gadget thread is full of misinformation (usually
happens when the thread becomes that long, full of opinionated people
expressing their opinions).

This is the real skinny:

Weather gadget not working- Cannot connect to service - Microsoft Community
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...9b99a7a?page=1

Here's the proper solution to it:

Hi everyone,



I do not typically post on any type of forums but this issue really got me into some fun troubleshooting. I am an IT Engineer for the military so I just wanted to ensure anyone who gives this a shot that I have been a Windows expert for half of my life now. It SHOULD fix your issue, but if it does not it will not break anything so give it a shot if nothing else has worked for you.



That said, I just spent 2 hours Googling and Binging trying to figure out why my father's stock weather gadget stopped working all of a sudden. Other machines in the house (all running Windows 7 Ultimate) were still working fine. This also affects the currency gagdet which he does not use.



I tried at least 7 different fixes that I read online...fixes from toggling your region settings, to disabling and re-enabling the gadget unchecking automatically detect in IE, to creating an elevated privs dword in the registry, to renaming the cache folder under app data\user\local\microsoft\windows live\services. Nothing worked. Cannot Connect to Service popped up whenever dragging out the gadget no matter what I attempted. I also read on numerous sites that Microsoft disabled the weather and currency gadget in a recent Windows update. I can confirm that this is NOT true. They recommend you stop using gadgets due to security vulnerabilities, but there is no AUTOMATIC update that will actually disable said two stock gadgets. There is however, a manual Fix It download from Microsoft you can install to perform the disabling of the gadgets. This is a manual download/install, not an automatic update.





So that brings me to what I did to fix it :-) So the renaming of the cache folder idea (which did not work) seemed like an idea I could expand upon. I tried a few different things and finally found the right combination of steps:



A) Copy the following files and folder from a Windows 7 machine with a working stock weather gadget to a flash drive or network file sha



1. %localappdata%\affected user\local\microsoft\windows\windows live\services\cache\config.xml (just copy the file)



2. %localappdata%\affected user\local\microsoft\windows\windows sidebar\cache\168522d5-1082-4df2-b2f6-9185c31f9472 (copy entire folder which should contain one or more xml files)



3. %localappdata%\affected user\local\microsoft\windows\windows sidebar\settings.ini (just copy the file)





B) Paste (OVERWRITING if necessary) the copied folder and files into the same locations on the machine whose stock weather gadget is not working.





C) Drag the weather gadget back out and this time it should be working



*** As I mentioned earlier, this issue effects both the weather and currency gadgets. I did not, however, attempt to fix the currency gadget. I would surmise that you would follow my same process above but also copy a second folder besides the one listed above (this time you would grab the one for the currency gadget) under %localappdata%\affected user\local\microsoft\windows\windows sidebar\cache. You would then paste the folder (overwriting if necessary) in the same location on the effected machine


Yousuf Khan

On 10 Feb 2015, FredW wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I read that already in the thread full of misinformation..

Does not work.

You're right, that thread is full of stuff that doesn't apply, and
the fix that Yousuf Khan cited does not work. However, a good answer
that worked for me just now is on about page 10 of that thread. Here
it is:

(from http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...b99a7a?page=10)

==============

Your 'solution' is a Hell lot more Complicated than mine!

Just DO:

========

Edit the Config.XML file in:

C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Live\Services\Cache

Change the lines at the top with:

services refresh="60"change from 60 to 45
service name="weather"
operation interval="30"/change from 30 to 15

and also the lines at the bottom with:

service name="stocks"
operation interval="15"/change from 15 to 10
/service
service name="currency"
operation interval="30"/ change from 30 to 15

Save the file, and that's it - restart the Weather Gadget.

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:35:21 -0500, Nil
wrote:

On 10 Feb 2015, FredW wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I read that already in the thread full of misinformation..

Does not work.

You're right, that thread is full of stuff that doesn't apply, and
the fix that Yousuf Khan cited does not work. However, a good answer
that worked for me just now is on about page 10 of that thread. Here
it is:

(from http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...b99a7a?page=10)

==============

Your 'solution' is a Hell lot more Complicated than mine!

Just DO:

========

Edit the Config.XML file in:

C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Live\Services\Cache

Change the lines at the top with:

services refresh="60"change from 60 to 45
service name="weather"
operation interval="30"/change from 30 to 15

and also the lines at the bottom with:

service name="stocks"
operation interval="15"/change from 15 to 10
/service
service name="currency"
operation interval="30"/ change from 30 to 15

Save the file, and that's it - restart the Weather Gadget.

Hi Nil,
It's not obvious to me why any of those changes would have a positive
effect, although I'm happy to hear that they worked for you. Do you know why
they were successful?

For the record, my gadgets still work fine, and my config.xml hasn't been
tweaked.

--

Char Jackson

Nil wrote:
On 10 Feb 2015, FredW wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I read that already in the thread full of misinformation..

Does not work.

You're right, that thread is full of stuff that doesn't apply, and
the fix that Yousuf Khan cited does not work. However, a good answer
that worked for me just now is on about page 10 of that thread. Here
it is:

(from http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...b99a7a?page=10)

==============

Your 'solution' is a Hell lot more Complicated than mine!

Just DO:

========

Edit the Config.XML file in:

C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Live\Services\Cache

Change the lines at the top with:

services refresh="60"change from 60 to 45
service name="weather"
operation interval="30"/change from 30 to 15

and also the lines at the bottom with:

service name="stocks"
operation interval="15"/change from 15 to 10
/service
service name="currency"
operation interval="30"/ change from 30 to 15

Save the file, and that's it - restart the Weather Gadget.

Do you have a full config.xml you could post ?
(As long as there is no personally identifiable info in it)

*******

I set up a VM, put Win7 RC in it, and it tried
to reach

gadgets.live.com/configW7.xml

and the file is not there. That suggests Yousef's recipe
will not work, unless you've successfully operated the
Weather gadget in the past.

My packet trace shows

gadgets.live.com = a1796.gs.akamai.net
weather.service.msn.com = a335.b.akamai.net

and I think the gadgets.live.com one is causing the problem.
The file, once received, is likely renamed to "config.xml".

I can find an example of a forecast, coming from the msn.com
site, but I don't know if this is an actual URL from the
weather gadget or not. So at the moment, this server
still has data on it. This is today's date at least.

http://weather.partners.msn.com/data...4-0370c4e8431f

weatherdata
weather weatherlocationcode="wc:USNY0996" weatherlocationname="New York, NY"
zipcode="10038"
url="http://local.msn.com/weather.aspx?eid=23164&q=New+York-NY&zip=10038&ctsrc=msntoolbar"
imagerelativeurl="http://wst.s-msn.com/i/en-us/" degreetype="F"
provider="iMap" attribution="Data provided by iMap"
attribution2="© iMap" lat="40.7101493" long="-74.00658"
timezone="-5" alert="" entityid="23164"
encodedlocationname="New+York%2c+NY"
current temperature="34" skycode="26" skytext="Cloudy"
date="2015-02-10" observationtime="12:51:00"
observationpoint="New York City, Central Park"
feelslike="34" humidity="59" winddisplay="11 mph NNE" day="Tuesday"
shortday="Tue" windspeed="11"/
forecast low="21" high="37" skycodeday="28" skytextday="Mostly Cloudy"
date="2015-02-10" day="Tuesday" shortday="Tue" precip="0"/
forecast low="27" high="31" skycodeday="32" skytextday="Sunny (Clear)"
date="2015-02-11" day="Wednesday" shortday="Wed" precip="0"/
forecast low="17" high="36" skycodeday="11" skytextday="Rain"
date="2015-02-12" day="Thursday" shortday="Thu" precip="70"/
forecast low="17" high="24" skycodeday="32" skytextday="Sunny (Clear)"
date="2015-02-13" day="Friday" shortday="Fri" precip="0"/
forecast low="24" high="36" skycodeday="16" skytextday="Snow"
date="2015-02-14" day="Saturday" shortday="Sat" precip="50"/
toolbar timewindow="60" minversion="1.0.1965.0"/
/weather
/weatherdata

As an example of what sort of info comes back. Maybe.

Paul

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:03:21 -0500, Paul wrote:

Nil wrote:
On 10 Feb 2015, FredW wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I read that already in the thread full of misinformation..

Does not work.

You're right, that thread is full of stuff that doesn't apply, and
the fix that Yousuf Khan cited does not work. However, a good answer
that worked for me just now is on about page 10 of that thread. Here
it is:

(from http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...b99a7a?page=10)

==============

Your 'solution' is a Hell lot more Complicated than mine!

Just DO:

========

Edit the Config.XML file in:

C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Live\Services\Cache

Change the lines at the top with:

services refresh="60"change from 60 to 45
service name="weather"
operation interval="30"/change from 30 to 15

and also the lines at the bottom with:

service name="stocks"
operation interval="15"/change from 15 to 10
/service
service name="currency"
operation interval="30"/ change from 30 to 15

Save the file, and that's it - restart the Weather Gadget.

Do you have a full config.xml you could post ?
(As long as there is no personally identifiable info in it)


Here's mine. There isn't much in it. I suspect this isn't where the good
stuff is kept.

//begin paste //

?xml version="1.0"?
services refresh="60"
service name="weather"
operation interval="30"/
languages
lang
ar-ae
/lang
lang
ar-bh
/lang
lang
ar-dz
/lang
lang
ar-eg
/lang
lang
ar-iq
/lang
lang
ar-jo
/lang
lang
ar-kw
/lang
lang
ar-lb
/lang
lang
ar-ly
/lang
lang
ar-ma
/lang
lang
arn-CL
/lang
lang
ar-om
/lang
lang
ar-qa
/lang
lang
ar-sa
/lang
lang
ar-SY
/lang
lang
ar-tn
/lang
lang
ar-ye
/lang
lang
az-AZ
/lang
lang
bs-BA
/lang
lang
cs-CZ
/lang
lang
cy-GB
/lang
lang
da-DK
/lang
lang
de-AT
/lang
lang
de-CH
/lang
lang
de-DE
/lang
lang
de-LI
/lang
lang
de-LU
/lang
lang
dsb-DE
/lang
lang
el-GR
/lang
lang
en-AU
/lang
lang
en-CA
/lang
lang
en-GB
/lang
lang
en-IE
/lang
lang
en-IN
/lang
lang
en-MY
/lang
lang
en-NZ
/lang
lang
en-PH
/lang
lang
en-SG
/lang
lang
en-US
/lang
lang
en-ZA
/lang
lang
es-AR
/lang
lang
es-BO
/lang
lang
es-CL
/lang
lang
es-CO
/lang
lang
es-CR
/lang
lang
es-DO
/lang
lang
es-EC
/lang
lang
es-ES
/lang
lang
es-GT
/lang
lang
es-HN
/lang
lang
es-MX
/lang
lang
es-NI
/lang
lang
es-PA
/lang
lang
es-PE
/lang
lang
es-PR
/lang
lang
es-PY
/lang
lang
es-SV
/lang
lang
es-US
/lang
lang
es-VE
/lang
lang
et-EE
/lang
lang
fi-FI
/lang
lang
fil-PH
/lang
lang
fo-FO
/lang
lang
fr-BE
/lang
lang
fr-CA
/lang
lang
fr-CH
/lang
lang
fr-FR
/lang
lang
fr-LU
/lang
lang
fr-MC
/lang
lang
fy-NL
/lang
lang
ga-IE
/lang
lang
he-IL
/lang
lang
hi-IN
/lang
lang
hr-HR
/lang
lang
hu-HU
/lang
lang
id-ID
/lang
lang
is-IS
/lang
lang
it-CH
/lang
lang
it-IT
/lang
lang
iu-CA
/lang
lang
ja-JP
/lang
lang
kl-GL
/lang
lang
lb-LU
/lang
lang
lt-LT
/lang
lang
lv-LV
/lang
lang
mi-NZ
/lang
lang
nb-NO
/lang
lang
nl-BE
/lang
lang
nl-NL
/lang
lang
nn-NO
/lang
lang
pl-PL
/lang
lang
pt-BR
/lang
lang
pt-PT
/lang
lang
qut-GT
/lang
lang
quz-BO
/lang
lang
quz-EC
/lang
lang
quz-PE
/lang
lang
rm-CH
/lang
lang
ro-RO
/lang
lang
ru-RU
/lang
lang
se-FI
/lang
lang
se-NO
/lang
lang
se-SE
/lang
lang
sk-SK
/lang
lang
sl-SI
/lang
lang
sma-NO
/lang
lang
sma-SE
/lang
lang
smj-NO
/lang
lang
smj-SE
/lang
lang
smn-FI
/lang
lang
sms-FI
/lang
lang
sr-CS
/lang
lang
sv-SE
/lang
lang
th-TH
/lang
lang
tr-TR
/lang
lang
uk-UA
/lang
lang
ur-PK
/lang
lang
wen-DE
/lang
lang
zh-SG
/lang
/languages
/service
service name="stocks"
operation interval="15"/
/service
service name="currency"
operation interval="30"/
/service
/services

//end paste//



*******


I can find an example of a forecast, coming from the msn.com
site, but I don't know if this is an actual URL from the
weather gadget or not. So at the moment, this server
still has data on it. This is today's date at least.

http://weather.partners.msn.com/data...4-0370c4e8431f

weatherdata
weather weatherlocationcode="wc:USNY0996" weatherlocationname="New York, NY"
zipcode="10038"
url="http://local.msn.com/weather.aspx?eid=23164&q=New+York-NY&zip=10038&ctsrc=msntoolbar"
imagerelativeurl="http://wst.s-msn.com/i/en-us/" degreetype="F"
provider="iMap" attribution="Data provided by iMap"
attribution2="© iMap" lat="40.7101493" long="-74.00658"
timezone="-5" alert="" entityid="23164"
encodedlocationname="New+York%2c+NY"
current temperature="34" skycode="26" skytext="Cloudy"
date="2015-02-10" observationtime="12:51:00"
observationpoint="New York City, Central Park"
feelslike="34" humidity="59" winddisplay="11 mph NNE" day="Tuesday"
shortday="Tue" windspeed="11"/
forecast low="21" high="37" skycodeday="28" skytextday="Mostly Cloudy"
date="2015-02-10" day="Tuesday" shortday="Tue" precip="0"/
forecast low="27" high="31" skycodeday="32" skytextday="Sunny (Clear)"
date="2015-02-11" day="Wednesday" shortday="Wed" precip="0"/
forecast low="17" high="36" skycodeday="11" skytextday="Rain"
date="2015-02-12" day="Thursday" shortday="Thu" precip="70"/
forecast low="17" high="24" skycodeday="32" skytextday="Sunny (Clear)"
date="2015-02-13" day="Friday" shortday="Fri" precip="0"/
forecast low="24" high="36" skycodeday="16" skytextday="Snow"
date="2015-02-14" day="Saturday" shortday="Sat" precip="50"/
toolbar timewindow="60" minversion="1.0.1965.0"/
/weather
/weatherdata

As an example of what sort of info comes back. Maybe.

Nearly identical to what I posted yesterday. Same location, even.

--

Char Jackson

On 10 Feb 2015, Paul wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

Do you have a full config.xml you could post ?
(As long as there is no personally identifiable info in it)

*******

I set up a VM, put Win7 RC in it, and it tried
to reach

gadgets.live.com/configW7.xml

and the file is not there. That suggests Yousef's recipe
will not work, unless you've successfully operated the
Weather gadget in the past.

I'm guessing the file is creates when you run the gadget. I have
another Windows 7 computer that had never run the Weather Gadget. In
fact, when I tried to install it, it wasn't among the available
choices. Instead, there was Weatherbug, which seems to not work at all.
I may try copying the Weather app from the other computer just to see
what happens.

Here's my "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windo ws
Live\Services\Cache\Config.xml" file, after editing according to the
article:

=========

?xml version="1.0"?
services refresh="45"
service name="weather"
operation interval="15"/
languages
lang
ar-ae
/lang
lang
ar-bh
/lang
lang
ar-dz
/lang
lang
ar-eg
/lang
lang
ar-iq
/lang
lang
ar-jo
/lang
lang
ar-kw
/lang
lang
ar-lb
/lang
lang
ar-ly
/lang
lang
ar-ma
/lang
lang
arn-CL
/lang
lang
ar-om
/lang
lang
ar-qa
/lang
lang
ar-sa
/lang
lang
ar-SY
/lang
lang
ar-tn
/lang
lang
ar-ye
/lang
lang
az-AZ
/lang
lang
bs-BA
/lang
lang
cs-CZ
/lang
lang
cy-GB
/lang
lang
da-DK
/lang
lang
de-AT
/lang
lang
de-CH
/lang
lang
de-DE
/lang
lang
de-LI
/lang
lang
de-LU
/lang
lang
dsb-DE
/lang
lang
el-GR
/lang
lang
en-AU
/lang
lang
en-CA
/lang
lang
en-GB
/lang
lang
en-IE
/lang
lang
en-IN
/lang
lang
en-MY
/lang
lang
en-NZ
/lang
lang
en-PH
/lang
lang
en-SG
/lang
lang
en-US
/lang
lang
en-ZA
/lang
lang
es-AR
/lang
lang
es-BO
/lang
lang
es-CL
/lang
lang
es-CO
/lang
lang
es-CR
/lang
lang
es-DO
/lang
lang
es-EC
/lang
lang
es-ES
/lang
lang
es-GT
/lang
lang
es-HN
/lang
lang
es-MX
/lang
lang
es-NI
/lang
lang
es-PA
/lang
lang
es-PE
/lang
lang
es-PR
/lang
lang
es-PY
/lang
lang
es-SV
/lang
lang
es-US
/lang
lang
es-VE
/lang
lang
et-EE
/lang
lang
fi-FI
/lang
lang
fil-PH
/lang
lang
fo-FO
/lang
lang
fr-BE
/lang
lang
fr-CA
/lang
lang
fr-CH
/lang
lang
fr-FR
/lang
lang
fr-LU
/lang
lang
fr-MC
/lang
lang
fy-NL
/lang
lang
ga-IE
/lang
lang
he-IL
/lang
lang
hi-IN
/lang
lang
hr-HR
/lang
lang
hu-HU
/lang
lang
id-ID
/lang
lang
is-IS
/lang
lang
it-CH
/lang
lang
it-IT
/lang
lang
iu-CA
/lang
lang
ja-JP
/lang
lang
kl-GL
/lang
lang
lb-LU
/lang
lang
lt-LT
/lang
lang
lv-LV
/lang
lang
mi-NZ
/lang
lang
nb-NO
/lang
lang
nl-BE
/lang
lang
nl-NL
/lang
lang
nn-NO
/lang
lang
pl-PL
/lang
lang
pt-BR
/lang
lang
pt-PT
/lang
lang
qut-GT
/lang
lang
quz-BO
/lang
lang
quz-EC
/lang
lang
quz-PE
/lang
lang
rm-CH
/lang
lang
ro-RO
/lang
lang
ru-RU
/lang
lang
se-FI
/lang
lang
se-NO
/lang
lang
se-SE
/lang
lang
sk-SK
/lang
lang
sl-SI
/lang
lang
sma-NO
/lang
lang
sma-SE
/lang
lang
smj-NO
/lang
lang
smj-SE
/lang
lang
smn-FI
/lang
lang
sms-FI
/lang
lang
sr-CS
/lang
lang
sv-SE
/lang
lang
th-TH
/lang
lang
tr-TR
/lang
lang
uk-UA
/lang
lang
ur-PK
/lang
lang
wen-DE
/lang
lang
zh-SG
/lang
/languages
/service
service name="stocks"
operation interval="10"/
/service
service name="currency"
operation interval="15"/
/service
/services

On 10 Feb 2015, Char Jackson wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

It's not obvious to me why any of those changes would have a
positive effect, although I'm happy to hear that they worked for
you. Do you know why they were successful?

I have no idea why it works. I assume the edits change the time
intervals between checks for new data, but it doesn't seem very logical
that that would make the gadget work or not. Nevertheless, it did!

For the record, my gadgets still work fine, and my config.xml
hasn't been tweaked.

Is a puzzlement.

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:35:21 -0500, Nil
wrote:


Just DO:

[snip instructions for editing Config.xml file]

Thank you. Just tried this fix and it worked. (Why I have no idea!)
Took about 30 seconds for the gadget to display the info for the
default location (New York) but accepted my location change.

Curiously, though, the Currency gadget still reports "Cannot connect
to service" and shows conversions from information it pulled 1351 days
ago (presumably the last time I opened it and played with it).

But the Weather gadget seems to be operational again (for now). I'll
see how long it lasts. I saved the original config.xml file under a
different name just to have the original values preserved to fall back
on, not that I can think of any need for that arising.

Thanks again.

RW

In message , FredW
writes:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:35:21 -0500, Nil
wrote:
[]
Your 'solution' is a Hell lot more Complicated than mine!

Just DO:

========

Edit the Config.XML file in:

C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Live\Services\Cache

Under C:\Users\me, I don't have an AppData. I do have Application Data.
Under C:\Users\me\Application Data, I have only Macromedia.

At C:\Users, entering Config.XML gets to "No items match your search" as
soon as I enter the X.
[]
(Windows 7 HP, 64.)
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Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:03:21 -0500, Paul wrote:

Nil wrote:
On 10 Feb 2015, FredW wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I read that already in the thread full of misinformation..

Does not work.
You're right, that thread is full of stuff that doesn't apply, and
the fix that Yousuf Khan cited does not work. However, a good answer
that worked for me just now is on about page 10 of that thread. Here
it is:

(from http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...b99a7a?page=10)

==============

Your 'solution' is a Hell lot more Complicated than mine!

Just DO:

========

Edit the Config.XML file in:

C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Live\Services\Cache

Change the lines at the top with:

services refresh="60"change from 60 to 45
service name="weather"
operation interval="30"/change from 30 to 15

and also the lines at the bottom with:

service name="stocks"
operation interval="15"/change from 15 to 10
/service
service name="currency"
operation interval="30"/ change from 30 to 15

Save the file, and that's it - restart the Weather Gadget.
Do you have a full config.xml you could post ?
(As long as there is no personally identifiable info in it)

Here's mine. There isn't much in it. I suspect this isn't where the good
stuff is kept.

//begin paste //

?xml version="1.0"?
services refresh="60"
service name="weather"
operation interval="30"/
languages

bunch of locales snipped... salt to taste

lang
en-US
/lang
/languages
/service
service name="stocks"
operation interval="15"/
/service
service name="currency"
operation interval="30"/
/service
/services

//end paste//


*******

I can find an example of a forecast, coming from the msn.com
site, but I don't know if this is an actual URL from the
weather gadget or not. So at the moment, this server
still has data on it. This is today's date at least.

http://weather.partners.msn.com/data...4-0370c4e8431f

weatherdata
weather weatherlocationcode="wc:USNY0996" weatherlocationname="New York, NY"
weather forecast snipped...
/weather
/weatherdata

As an example of what sort of info comes back. Maybe.

Nearly identical to what I posted yesterday. Same location, even.


*******

Amazing.

Tool Nil's folder path...

C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache

Took your config.xml and trimmed it a little bit (fewer locales).

(Maybe just the action of "saving" it, changes the date and makes it work?
It's a "cache" after all, and needs to be validated once in a while.)

This is the file I used, and grabbing the weather gadget, it works :-)

Contents of the config.xml I used, plopped into above cachedir ...

?xml version="1.0"?
services refresh="45"
service name="weather"
operation interval="15"/
languages
lang
en-CA
/lang
lang
en-US
/lang
/languages
/service
service name="stocks"
operation interval="10"/
/service
service name="currency"
operation interval="15"/
/service
/services

The gadget starts, pointed to New York, but
entering my location manually, corrects that.
Resizing the widget, reveals a forecast.

HTH,
Paul

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:39:44 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , FredW
writes:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:35:21 -0500, Nil
wrote:
[]
Your 'solution' is a Hell lot more Complicated than mine!

Just DO:

========

Edit the Config.XML file in:

C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Live\Services\Cache

Under C:\Users\me, I don't have an AppData. I do have Application Data.
Under C:\Users\me\Application Data, I have only Macromedia.

At C:\Users, entering Config.XML gets to "No items match your search" as
soon as I enter the X.
[]
(Windows 7 HP, 64.)

You probably know this, so ignore if you like.

Two ways to get there are 1) Show Hidden Folders, and 2) by manually typing
each folder name into Win Explorer and pressing Enter, and a third way is to
simply copy/paste the entire path into Win Explorer.

The first method is straightforward, so no more about that.
The second and third methods don't require you to Show Hidden Folders, so
those are the ones that I use most often, especially when I'm on someone
else's machine and don't want to change their settings.

Navigate to C:\Users\username. Now, in the location field, simply append
\AppData Enter \Local Enter \Microsoft Enter \Windows Live Enter
\Services Enter \Cache Enter. You can also type all or any part of that
before hitting Enter; it doesn't have to be one level at a time.

Unless, of course, the folders really don't exist, but I would think that
they exist for everyone.

--

Char Jackson

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:23:39 -0500, Paul wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:03:21 -0500, Paul wrote:

Nil wrote:
On 10 Feb 2015, FredW wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I read that already in the thread full of misinformation..

Does not work.
You're right, that thread is full of stuff that doesn't apply, and
the fix that Yousuf Khan cited does not work. However, a good answer
that worked for me just now is on about page 10 of that thread. Here
it is:

(from http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...b99a7a?page=10)

==============

Your 'solution' is a Hell lot more Complicated than mine!

Just DO:

========

Edit the Config.XML file in:

C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Live\Services\Cache

Change the lines at the top with:

services refresh="60"change from 60 to 45
service name="weather"
operation interval="30"/change from 30 to 15

and also the lines at the bottom with:

service name="stocks"
operation interval="15"/change from 15 to 10
/service
service name="currency"
operation interval="30"/ change from 30 to 15

Save the file, and that's it - restart the Weather Gadget.
Do you have a full config.xml you could post ?
(As long as there is no personally identifiable info in it)

Here's mine. There isn't much in it. I suspect this isn't where the good
stuff is kept.

//begin paste //

?xml version="1.0"?
services refresh="60"
service name="weather"
operation interval="30"/
languages

bunch of locales snipped... salt to taste

lang
en-US
/lang
/languages
/service
service name="stocks"
operation interval="15"/
/service
service name="currency"
operation interval="30"/
/service
/services

//end paste//


*******

I can find an example of a forecast, coming from the msn.com
site, but I don't know if this is an actual URL from the
weather gadget or not. So at the moment, this server
still has data on it. This is today's date at least.

http://weather.partners.msn.com/data...4-0370c4e8431f

weatherdata
weather weatherlocationcode="wc:USNY0996" weatherlocationname="New York, NY"
weather forecast snipped...
/weather
/weatherdata

As an example of what sort of info comes back. Maybe.

Nearly identical to what I posted yesterday. Same location, even.


*******

Amazing.

Tool Nil's folder path...

C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache

Took your config.xml and trimmed it a little bit (fewer locales).

(Maybe just the action of "saving" it, changes the date and makes it work?
It's a "cache" after all, and needs to be validated once in a while.)

This is the file I used, and grabbing the weather gadget, it works :-)

Contents of the config.xml I used, plopped into above cachedir ...

?xml version="1.0"?
services refresh="45"
service name="weather"
operation interval="15"/
languages
lang
en-CA
/lang
lang
en-US
/lang
/languages
/service
service name="stocks"
operation interval="10"/
/service
service name="currency"
operation interval="15"/
/service
/services

The gadget starts, pointed to New York, but
entering my location manually, corrects that.
Resizing the widget, reveals a forecast.


Perfect! So to the folks who say that MS disabled all gadgets, I say phooey.
:-)


--

Char Jackson