Vista sidebar gadget problem…

slipd · 16 Oct 2007 at 20:19

Hey guys,

A couple of my gadgets in my Vista Ultimate sidebar seem to have stopped working

Namely the BBC news rss feed and the standard MS weather one! Both were working but now they’ve stopped? All I get for the BBC one is a BBC ghost outline and for the weather one I get ‘Service not available.’

They were working great until a couple of days ago? I’ve tried different networks etc and I know my firewall’s not blocking them because when I use the generic Vista news gadget, that works fine

Any ideas?

Cheers,

SW.

zobby · 16 Oct 2007 at 20:44

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling them?

slipd · 16 Oct 2007 at 20:51

zobby said:
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling them?

I've tried closing/re-opening them? That hasn't solved anything

How do I uninstall? (New to Vista

)

Cheers,

SW.

point decay · 16 Oct 2007 at 21:25

sam.wheale said:
I've tried closing/re-opening them? That hasn't solved anything

How do I uninstall? (New to Vista )

Cheers,

SW.

click the + symbol on the sidebar, find the gadgets in question, right click, uninstall

slipd · 16 Oct 2007 at 21:40

Nope, that hasn't sorted it

SW.

Edit: I tried a new weather gadget too and that came up with a 'couldn't connect error?' Maybe the sidebar is being blocked - I'm only using Windows firewall...

slipd · 16 Oct 2007 at 21:46

Sorted!

It was because I was working offline in IE

Thanks for you help.

SW.