Comments on: Vista Sidebar Weather Gadget Service Not Available

By: Elena

Elena — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:29:29 +0000

Thank you so much!!!

By: Gerhart

Gerhart — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:11:40 +0000

Can anyone tell me what is the source of the weather data that is used by the vista built-in weatheadget? From wich weather service comes the data?
thx

By: usman

usman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:20:21 +0000

thanku thanku its woriking now thnx again\god bless u

By: BootheFlyer

BootheFlyer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:32:46 +0000

Thank you It work out for me too!!

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:07:45 +0000

thank you
thank you
thank you……
it working

By: LoLo

LoLo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:48:58 +0000

Thank you so much..it worked..!!
keep it up..^__^

By: Eline

Eline — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:08:21 +0000

Thank you Mikhayela for this solution, it works fine now!

By: Liviu

Liviu — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:21:57 +0000

Thank you! Regional & Lng Option setting was enough to make it work. Cheers!

By: Zhoro

Zhoro — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:50:37 +0000

great…

By: Mikhayela

Mikhayela — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:20:22 +0000

I came upon this solution which worked fine with me:

For those who having problem in Weather Sidebar:

1) Close your sidebar
2) Go to “C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar”
3) Take Ownership for “wlsrvc.dll”**
4) rename “wlsrvc.dll” to “wlsrvc.dll.old”
5) replace the zip file i attached here and RUN sidebar.exe

ENJOY!

** How to take ownership:
1) right click “wlsrvc.dll” > Properties > Owner > Edit > SELECT “Administrators” > OK
2) Go to Permissions > Edit > SELECT Administrators > Edit > TICK ALLOW “Full Control ” > OK x 4

you can download the “wlsrvc.dll” zip from http://www.ziddu.com/download/3030005/wlsrvc.zip.html

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:22:37 +0000

It is indeed stupid that you need to change language for non-unicode software to get this garget to work. Considering: other unicode software including all other sidebar’s gadgets work perfectly with non-US locale setting; the weather gadget does not use non-english characters; locale settings is not a new Vista feature. The best solution should be: Do not use Vista. Go Linux!

By: saulo

saulo — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:49:28 +0000

Very useful, thanks a lot!
S.

By: Vahid

Vahid — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:47:56 +0000

Thanks a lot

By: Jaburiks

Jaburiks — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:01:08 +0000

Thank you!!! It worked

Keep it up …

By: rad

rad — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:03:24 +0000

Thanks the info supplied worked for me.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:27:49 +0000

is there another solution? i dont want to change my non uni-code language option, i live in korea because i am teaching here, and some of my programs and games are in korean, if i change that setting the game will show all sorts of strange characters and question marks

am i doomed to never be able to have the weather gadget working?