ObjectDock Weather Docklet Incorrect Days

Published on December 12, 2008 By Gargabee In Docks

For anyone that is having a problem with the weather docklet reporting the days incorrectly (for instance, Friday would list as Today, Tomorrow, Friday) we have an unofficial temporary workaround that you can try.

Close down ObjectDock so that it is not running.

Open the folder where ObjectDock is installed (typically C:\Program Files\Stardock\ObjectDock) and find your 'stardockweather.ocx' file. Right click on it and select 'Rename' and rename it to 'stardockweather.ocx.bak' so that you can keep your original file preserved in case something goes horribly wrong.

Download this replacement stardockweather.ocx file:

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

and save it to your ObjectDock install folder (C:\Program Files\Stardock\ObjectDock). Open up ObjectDock and check the weather docklet. This may not work for everyone as it is a temporary workaround.

Comments (Page 2)

DigitalCHET

on Feb 03, 2009

Great! This worked a treat!!

Finally.... weather docklets!!

farfrumcrashen

on Feb 17, 2009

I was having a slightly different issue in that my weather icons didn't seem to want to update (or show any data for that matter) after the system came back from standby. It seemed like it just couldn't connect to the internet, even though all of my other programs could. Forcing it to update didn't do anything either, since it would just say that the data/feed was not available. I always had to close ObjectDock and then run it again, which would fix the issue immediately.

Anyway, I figured that I'd give this fix a try and it looks like it's working. I just tested going to standby after switching the ocx file and restarting Objectdock to make sure that the new docklet was loaded into memory, and so far it looks to be working properly.

Thanks.

Raven-sb

on Feb 18, 2009

Works perfectly for me, Vista 32-bit sp1. Thanks for the workaround.

WebReg

on Feb 22, 2009

Thanks - did the trick for me.

PuterDudeJim

on Mar 16, 2009

Thanks for the fix.(Vista SP1)

Gargabee

on Mar 16, 2009

Glad to hear this is still helping out. About the only time it does not seem to help is when a country has multiple cities of the same name. The docklet to just defaults to one and you do not get to choose.

LifeSparkles

on Apr 18, 2009

Also worked for me. Thank you Kend0..I came here looking for a fix and found it.

Thank you for your time on this!

Desdomona

on Apr 20, 2009

Greetings everyone!! New to Stardock Object Dock and can't get the weatherdock to work either. Keeps telling me "no internet connection". I followed the previous instructions and still nothing. I'm not a savvy computer guru so could someone please help me?? thank you so much beforehand!!!

Wizard1956

on Apr 20, 2009

Desdomona download this and place it in (C:\Program Files\Stardock\ObjectDock). If it asks if you want to replace the one in there select "yes" then close and restart ObjectDock

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

Alio0p

on Apr 20, 2009

Thanks a bunch for this! .. I'm runnin XP/SP3 too and have OD plus and it was telling no internet connection also. I renamed the ariginal and saved the new one. w0rked great!

[e digicons]:karma:[/e] ty ty again!

The Knightlord

on Apr 23, 2009

Nice job guys, it's works also for me on vista! thx

MichaelG04

on May 20, 2009

why is this not included in an objectdock update yet?

JoshLie

on Jun 02, 2009

I am in Perth, Australia, and having problem with identifying this city with AccuWeather used in this docklet. I input "Perth, Australia" and the weathers given is Perth in Tasmania. I have checked AccuWeather website and indeed for Perth it gives the option for Perth, Australia (Tasmania) and Perth, Australia (Western Australia), but I cannot figure out how to set the docklet to Perth, Australia (Western Australia) instead of Tasmania. Any idea? Thanks.

MarkGuyler

on Jun 24, 2009

Worked fine - thanks.

andicillo

on Sep 12, 2009

How can I translate the weather docklet? Thanks

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