Up until the end of September the Metro Weather app was working fine. It stopped when we rolled in to October. The weather details appear on the tile pinned to Start, but when you click on it you go to the blue screen and it spins ... forever.
Everything is supported to convert to Windows 10, yes. PC is a 6 month old Dell with an I3 chip, 1TB HD, 8 GB RAM, etc.
I should not have to convert to Windows 10 so that an MSN Weather App can work. It was working fine for the past 6 months and stopped October 1st. Something happened on the Microsoft end and when in the store on Windows the comments on the app are all the same ... stopped working October 1st.
I was hoping someone else had the same experience and knew a fix.
1. Re-start your computer. Don't do anything other than immediately going to Step 2.
2. Go to either the file-folder icon on your taskbar (File Explorer) or the "This PC" icon on your start screen. On my start screen, the icon is of a little blue monitor sitting next to a slim, vertical box. Click on the icon to open up file explorer.
2. Go to the following directory:
C:\Users\YourUser\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.BingWeather_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Configuration
By the way, that part of the address in the line above that reads \YourUser\ is actually going to appear as whatever you named your computer when you first set it up, so you have to look for that. On your computer, it may be "Vivi's tablet" or something like that.
Anyway, once you're in that directory, should be just one file in it. It is called "configuration_3.0.4.366.sqlite".
3. Rename that file "configuration_3.0.2.258.sqlite". (In other words, you're just changing the last four numerals in the file name, nothing else).
The easiest way to rename the file is to right-click on the name, and then select "Rename" from the box that appears.
4. Once you've renamed the file, close File Explorer.
And now, the MSN Weather App should work.
5. Try rebooting your computer and opening the Weather App just to make sure.
You may want to read that thread closely if you want a workaround until Microsoft fixes the underlying problem. I found it with a Google search and just skimmed it until I found a solution. There was some comment about turning off the app update, but I didn't try to follow it in detail.
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