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ThumperSD

Join Date 01/2010

ObjectDock unable to retrieve weather information

Why is my ObjectDock weather docklet unable to ever retrieve the weather/forecast? I set my firewall to NOT block it.

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Philly0381

Join Date 11/2004

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What verison of ObjectDock, free of plus?

What OS are you running?

What is it the notice you receive from the weather docklett?

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Free. Windows 7. The notice is "Feed not available... try again later"

The thing is, when I initially installed objectdock, it worked. After a day or two, it stopped working and I was never able to get it to work again.

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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Try replacing the Weather.ocx file in your current OD with the Weather.ocx from here:

http://sd.stardock.com/ken/stardockweather.ocx

remember to rename the stardockweather.ocx Weather.ocx

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works now. thanks!

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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Welcome, ThumperSD! I'm really glad I could help. If it 'goes bad' again, try repeating the fix. It's not the program's fault...it has to do with the weather service.

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Thanks, DrJBHL. Where would I put the new Weather.ocx file? I searched my entire computer and no such file currently exists. Thanks.

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Bushman

Join Date 08/2001

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Thanks, DrJBHL. Where would I put the new Weather.ocx file? I searched my entire computer and no such file currently exists. Thanks.

Open to your OD folder (C:\Program Files\Stardock\ObjectDock) and look for it, replace the one there with the one dl'ed from the link from DrJBHL above, worked for me also Thanks DrJBHL

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Try replacing the Weather.ocx file in your current OD with the Weather.ocx from here:

http://sd.stardock.com/ken/stardockweather.ocx

remember to rename the stardockweather.ocx Weather.ocx

Thanks a lot, it worked perfectly! However, when I went to the installation directory, there was only StardockWeather.ocx, no Weather.ocx. I created a copy of the original file, and replaced it with your link (without renaming). As soon as I did it, the dock updated almost instantly.

Many thanks

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Did the same for ODplus on WinXP.... now to solve the problem with sysmetrix weather... Again, thanks for the help, even though I lurked the answer.

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if you solve the problem with sysmetrix weather,please report here ! Thanks as I have the same problem

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