Solved weather widget not connecting

[garbanzo]

clearing the cache didn't help.

i've tried a dozen different weather widgets, none work. the sidebar simply isn't connecting, and i cannot figure out why.

 

[Airbot]

Sounds like some problem with your network connection and not the gadgets.

 

[Ex_Brit]

..or firewall.

 

[Airbot]

Just to test, temporarily turn off your firewall and AV completely.

 

[garbanzo]

i've done that too - i disabled nod32, restarted, and it still wouldn't connect.

i would be more inclined to call it a network problem if i were having other problems, but everything else is working fine...

 

[Airbot]

What about windows defender too? Kind of sounds like there is an exception in your gadgets establishing a connection from something. Have you checked out something like process explorer or autoruns and see under the tcp/ip tab if it connected.

 

[garbanzo]

i thought windows defender was just spyware? i have windows firewall disabled...

here's what system explorer says:

 

[Airbot]

Well, you never know. Sometimes it blocks things.

 

[Ex_Brit]

You are using some sort of firewall I hope?

 

[Ex_Brit]

Just a minute here...how did you get Windows Defender Software Explorer in Windows 7?

MSFT wrote it out, or so I thought.

 

[Airbot]

Who said anything about win defenders software explorer? I said Process Explorer from Sysinternals. And yes, they took out the software explorer from win defender.

 

[Ex_Brit]

Serves me right for not reading properly or trusting my eyes...LOL

Thanks.

 

[Airbot]

I could see where it seemed to say that.

 

[garbanzo]

i finally solved this problem.

control panel - internet options - connections tab - LAN settings
then uncheck automatically detect settings

now they work just fine. it turned out IE wasn't connecting either, but i never knew since i use firefox!

 

[NosferatuX]

i finally solved this problem.

control panel - internet options - connections tab - LAN settings
then uncheck automatically detect settings

now they work just fine. it turned out IE wasn't connecting either, but i never knew since i use firefox!

Amen.

 

[Airbot]

Good news garbanzo. Weird that it hasn't affected many others.

 

[garbanzo]

it has affected others, just not here! i was having problems with a 3rd party app (MediaMan) not connecting, which led me to realize IE wasn't connecting either. i went hunting and found posts on another Windows 7 forum about people having the same problem. they didn't have a solution, but that discussion led me to find the one i posted. now MediaMan works, IE connects, and by gadgets are online again.

strange problem indeed! especially since things were working fine a few weeks ago.

anyway, it's nice having the weather widget back. oh and the exchange rate one too, since i get paid in a different currency than the one i spend every day!

 

[Fandango]

Windows 7 weather gadget

OK, I had a problem with the weather gadget, it would show "Cannot connect to service", then once I tinkered around a bit (using guides researched off the net) it would constantly load but not show the weather.

The solution to my problem was to go into control panel and into regional settings, there change all settings you can see to your native country then I went into "copy settings" in the "administrative" tab in the "Region and Language" settings.

I then proceeded to copy over all the settings to reflect my correct region.

Once all settings copied over to UK (my domain) the weather program kicked in and started to work again.

I tried all sorts of methods as mentioned above but in the end it was something as trivial as regional settings not being copied over TO ALL AREAS OF WINDOWS (It turned out that I had manually changed all the settings over except the Welcome Screen, once I did that using the process above, it worked fine).

 

[jcr]

I've tried all above "fixes" and none has worked for me. Win 7 has installed in October, so it worked for five months be for it went wacko.

 

[NeoFromOz]

working offline on internet explorer?

I just changed internet explorer to work online and it started to work!