Windows 7 Weather and Currency gadgets not updating

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by phrunt, Jul 17, 2010.

  1. phrunt

    phrunt MDL Addicted

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    Has anyone else had this problem with these gadgets? both my currency and weather gadgets havent updated in at least a week on all machines in my house and I don't know why, Even on a clean install they don't work? Any hints?
     
  2. phrunt

    phrunt MDL Addicted

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    This is what i've found so far:

    The wlsrvc.dll file references weather.services.msn.com which has now been changed to weather.msn.com.

    MSN / Microsoft need to release a new version of the dll with the addresses changed, or msn.com needs to put the directory back.
     
  3. Whiznot

    Whiznot MDL Member

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    The most recent version of yahoo widget engine supports Win7.
     
  4. amires

    amires MDL Member

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    You can probably add an entry like this to your host file to redirect weather.services.msn.com to weather.msn.com

    65.55.206.207 weather.services.msn.com
     
  5. phrunt

    phrunt MDL Addicted

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    thanks for the tip, tried that just then but it doesn't work. I did a general google on the problem and it seems many people have it, maybe ms will do a patch on tuesday
     
  6. RCOO

    RCOO MDL Senior Member

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    I got it too. At the beggining I thought It was my new router, but it isn't. I tryed direct connection between modem and PC and it still doesn't work.
    Glad to hear I'm not the only one.
     
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