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Did you rightclick the .exe to Run as Admin?
Weather widget replacement for Windows 7
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Check Gadgets have been discontinued - Microsoft Windows
And also, for an alternative try: AccuWeather.com - Download Center - Weather Widgets, Add-Ons, Tools
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Working replacement has been found!!!
Weather - Windows 7 Desktop GadgetLast edited by bk4him; 07 Feb 2015 at 23:35.
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A fix for the existing sidebar gadget has been found!
Go to the Start Menu search box or open the Run dialog, then paste
and press Enter.Code:%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache
You should see a Config.xml file.
Replace this Config.xml file with the one located at http://thefilmreel.tk/Config.xml
(right click, save link as or save target as)
Restart your machine.
The weather gadget and the currency gadget should now run properly!
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I've successfully set up addgadgets.com and it's better than what I had before.
8gadgetpack did not load under Win7 on several tries.
Rainmeter appeared to be all about graphics. Was unable to find any weather gadgets and now don't need to try any further....
Thanks for all the help.
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New #17
Never one to blindly assert a strange file onto my computer, I looked at the two and VERY ODDLY the new Config file uses different characters for "carriage returns". The original consistently uses ASCII 0D 0A and the new one instead uses just 0A. I can't imagine why/how after all these years this would happen???
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Posts : 5,605 Originally Win 7 Hm Prem x64 Ver 6.1.7600 Build 7601-SP1 | Upgraded to Windows 10 December 14, 2019New #18
That could possibly pose a problem, but not specifically a malevolent one, see the last paragraph.
From: Line termination: line feed versus carriage return 0d 0a
According to this the new Config file was created using linux or someone used to using linux. I could only speculate on the why or how after all these years.If your file was created in Linux, you would also see a single character 0a after each letter, that is, wherever you pressed the ENTER key.
If your file was created in Windows, the pair of characters 0d and 0a would appear any place where you pressed the ENTER key.
The hexadecimal 0a, a control character as opposed to a printing character, is called a line feed.
The hexadecimal 0d is called a carriage return.
Pretty much all the programs on the Windows platform understand and expect the hexadecimal 0a0d pair in text. The 0d0a pair of characters is the signal for the end of a line and beginning of another.
On the other hand, a UNIX program expects the single 0a character to denote the same thing.
A problem arises with cross-platform exchange of files. If you transfer files from Linux to Windows or Mac, the software sees something other than what it expects.
My best shot; bk4him would have to ask the owner of thefilmreel.tk site why s/he created the new config in linux.
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What is bizarre to me is that there isn't anything else that is different about the contents of the file; nothing else to suggest why the gadget starts to work again.
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Hi folks, just to clear up the confusion, here's the manual process for repairing your Config.xml. I just compiled one myself to save you all the hassle.
Open "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Services\Cache\Config.xml" in Notepad or other plain text editor.
Change the values in these lines at the top of the file:
<services refresh="60"> -- change from 60 to 45
<service name="weather">
<operation interval="30"/> -- change from 30 to 15
and also the values in these lines at the bottom:
<service name="stocks">
<operation interval="15"/> -- change from 15 to 10
</service>
<service name="currency">
<operation interval="30"/> -- change from 30 to 15
Upon restarting your machine or sidebar.exe, all gadgets should function properly.
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