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"Feed Headlines" Vista gadget broken

I love the built-in RSS gadget in Windows Vista. If you've never used it before, this is how it looks:

"Feed Headlines" gadget

... but life is hard, so it broke at one point and I was started wondering on the 5th day that I still see the same news headlines for days now, no news in the IT world ... I was started thinking about selling my stocks :)  Then, I found that it's simply not refreshing the feeds.

I was checking the feeds in Internet Explorer (Ctrl + Shift + J -> J, like RSS :) and found that the feeds here were way expired too! Then, started asking around in internal distribution lists. Immediately got an answer from Walter VonKoch, who sent a me a checklist. It turns out that the feeds are updated by a task configured in Windows Task Scheduler. Deleting and recreating the task solved the problem.

See the checklist on Walter's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2007/01/08/feeds-not-updating.aspx

Posted: Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:33 PM by dszabo
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John Dleney said:

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one with this problem but can you please "dumb down" the instructions?  For instance, where do I type sc queryex schedule?  Do I open a command line?

Thanks!

JohnD

# March 17, 2007 1:28 PM

dszabo said:

Hi John,

Sorry for not answering so far. Yes, please open a command window (Start -> Run, then type CMD and hit Enter), then type the commands there one by one and hit Enter after each line. Please inspect the output of each line and check the next steps at Walter's weblog. Please let me know if you have any questions! Cheers!

David

# March 23, 2007 1:14 PM

John Delaney said:

David,

Thanks for getting back to me.  I tried the instructions and saw nothing immediate.  Just for fun I tried stopping and restarting the service but there was no change.

I then scrolled down through the responses below the instructions and saw a suggestion to select "close unused folders in History and Favorites" from the ADVANCED tab in Internet Options. Then I noticed my feeds updated.

So I'm not sure what action worked.  Either my playing around or checking that advanced option.  The latest feeds are showing up.  We'll see what tomorrow brings....

Thanks!

# March 24, 2007 8:55 AM

dszabo said:

Hey John, it sounds funny, I'm glad that it got solved. Hope it works well now.

David

# March 26, 2007 5:26 AM

Mick Russom said:

Min just stuck, sep 1. checklist did nothing, nothing was wrong per the checklist.

This stuff , RSS feeds, has worked forever in firefox. I dont get why this stuff is breaking and not being updated.

Rather sad.

# September 12, 2007 4:32 AM

dszabo said:

Mick, is there anything that we can help you in? Cheers, David.

# September 19, 2007 8:40 AM
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