What do you do with the WIN7/8 weather gadgets?

Starting with the Windows Vista system, the Windows operating system adds a new gadget, with a rich gadget resource from Microsoft and programming enthusiasts.

The Windows 7 system comes with 9 gadgets, such as CPU dashboards, weather, clocks, currency, and so on, as shown in the figure:

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With these gadgets, you can easily view instant messages and access common tools. For example, we can use gadgets to display picture slides or to view constantly updated titles.

Among them, the weather forecast gadget is undoubtedly very important: the next day to go out to wear what clothes, with no umbrella, the weekend is scheduled to go out to play, etc. need to refer to the weather forecast information provided. So, Xiao Yi guess that many people add the first gadget is "weather" bar. But after we added "weather", it doesn't work, only "the service is not available in your region." "Such a hint.

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Reason:

Originally, the 22nd article of the Meteorological Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates:

Meteorological stations belonging to all levels of meteorology shall, in accordance with their duties, issue public weather forecasts and disastrous weather warnings to the society and supplement or revise them in time according to the weather changes. No other organization or individual may issue public weather forecasts and disastrous weather alerts to the community.

(For more information on the meteorological law of the People's Republic of China Please check here.) ）

And Windows comes with a "weather" gadget that is a globally unified component that is currently getting weather information from servers in the United States. And China's meteorological laws of the above provisions conflict, so the weather information is blocked, only to cause "your area is not able to use the service." "Such a problem arises.

Workaround:

You don't have to feel sorry for not being able to use such a good feature. In accordance with the above regulations, if the weather information is through the domestic "meteorological authorities at all levels of weather stations" to provide, there is no problem. So we can use the other programming enthusiasts to provide the third party weather gadgets to enjoy the new features brought to our convenience.

Right-click the desktop space and select gadgets .

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Then click the " get more Gadgets online " link in the lower right corner of the gadget page to open the Desktop Gadgets page.

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Drag the page down to see the weather forecast category, as shown in the figure:

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Here you can see the small tools that are uploaded by gadget enthusiasts, all of which have their own characteristics, such as displaying real-time temperatures, displaying weather for the next few days, or displaying detailed, comprehensive information. There are more weather gadgets that are modified according to Windows ' own weather . People can choose according to their own preferences.

When we click on the " download " button for these gadgets, we jump to the gadget introduction and download page as shown in the picture:

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On this page, we can see a detailed description of the gadget and comments from other users, and we can refer to other users ' comments to decide which gadget to use.

Small tip: Most of these gadgets are uploaded to the Windows Live community by individual users, so there is no guarantee that all are available or installable. When downloading, you may see the following prompts:

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