If nothing helps to make default Weather gadget working, try to download and install alternative weather and temperature gadget from Windows Live Gallery Vista Gadget section (gadgets has been discountinued) such as WeatherBug (gadgets has been discountinued) and Forecast Gadget (gadgets has been discountinued). Once made the changes, refresh the Weather gadget by closing and re-adding the gadget to the sidebar.įor users who need to use non-English as system language or locale, there is a hack to make weather gadget works everywhere. Note that changing system locale shouldn’t affect how Windows Vista works, as the setting only applies on non-Unicode programs that may be using character sets non-native to or not supported by installed Windows Vista system. If you can’t set to English, try to select the same for regional language display format and system locale. After re-invoking my sidebar under Windows 7, my weather gadget shows the same behavior. Since begin of February I recognized several thousands accesses to this really old blog post. I wrote a couple of blog articles about this issue for my German blog readers. Select English (United States) as the current language for non-Unicode programs. Some sidebar gadgets like the weather app reporting 'Service not available'. Restart your computer, then check if the Weather app is working. Select the Weather app, then choose Advanced Options and click Reset. Go to the right pane and look for the Weather app.

Click on Administrative tab, then click on Change system locale button. Go to the left-pane menu, then select Apps & Features. To change system locale, go to Control Panel -> Clock, Language and Region, and click on Regional and Language Options. Sometimes, simply by changing system language locale alone is enough to solve the Weather gadget issue. The reason for this error is that Microsoft has chosen. If the service unavailable problem still unresolved after step above, try to change system locale for Windows Vista to English (United States) too. There been many posts about the Weather Gadget and Currency gadget for Windows 7 showing this error.

Weather gadget not working