Weather Watcher Live 7.0.77

Rated 10/50 by kprovance at Jan 8, 2011

Oh, and what most of you don't know is that for all those of you who agree to install the ask toolbar during the install, mikey get's paid for it. Funny how it fails to mention that anywhere. Sorta like double dipping. One other thing. This installer is attempting to install a system file, which is NOT permitted by MSFT. The file winhttp.dll is forbidden from being redistributed with ANY project (http://www.ms-news.net/f...winhttp-dll-205821.html) See item #3. Here is proof from the install log of the program, which you an see yourself by adding the command line /LOG to the setup (Make a shortcut to the fire and add the line there, after the exe name). 2011-01-09 00:41:27.890 -- File entry -- 2011-01-09 00:41:27.890 Dest filename: C:\WINDOWS\system32\winhttp.dll 2011-01-09 00:41:27.890 Dest file is protected by Windows File Protection. 2011-01-09 00:41:27.890 Time stamp of our file: 2008-12-05 23:42:10.000 2011-01-09 00:41:27.890 Dest file exists. 2011-01-09 00:41:27.890 Time stamp of existing file: 2009-08-25 04:17:27.000 2011-01-09 00:41:27.890 Version of our file: 6.0.6001.18178 2011-01-09 00:41:27.890 Version of existing file: 5.1.2600.5868 2011-01-09 00:41:27.890 Existing file is protected by Windows File Protection. Skipping. Version 6.0.x is a VISTA version of that file. And what would happen if a WinXP or 2000 user who had WFP turned off? The Vista file overwrites the XP or 2000 file, a system file - and your box is hosed. Simple as that. So, you're dealing with some crackpot author with a huge ego who thinks he walks on water when in truth, he has no idea what he is doing, by not doing his homework about file installation protocol. It's a timebomb folks. Let's hope it isn't you that explodes inside your HD because the author didn't know what he was doing, or as he'll probably say "made a mistake". C'mon, if a program has bug updates every other day and hides them under "tweaks and modifications", they'r

Rated 40/50 by slingerpete at Jan 8, 2011

better than the weatherbug wish it was a free program

Rated 50/50 by Plumber at Jan 9, 2011

Wow--I guess Santa Claus skipped kprovance's house this year. It's OK man, I'd be angry too. So we're supposed to care what someone posting as "Guest" on some third-party web forum says about a DLL that Weather Watcher Live installs? Color me apathetic. If you are stupid enough to disable WFP through some unauthorized hack, whose fault is it if one of your system DLLs gets spooged? Hey, how about I take a pair of scissors to the seat belts in my car, and then scream like a crack baby when I get hurt in a collision because I wasn't wearing a seat belt? Ask toolbar? I didn't even know that was distributed with WWL. Oh that's right--because it's not. Because I've paid for it. And because, as kprovance says--in the only coherent part of his post--you have to AGREE to install it. By the way, kprovance (Kevin) doesn't mention it, but he's an old "rival" (to use a grossly inflated term) of Mike Singer's. He has been nipping at Mike's ankles for at least 6 years, and has his own weather application (which hasn't been updated in over 5 years). And BTW, Kevin's application uses Weather.com's data without paying, which is ironic since he not only accused Mike of "stealing" their data in the same manner, he wrote to Weather.com to try getting Mike's application banned. Just for fun, Google Kevin Provance on encyclopediadramatica.com.

Rated 40/50 by lbonesio at Jan 12, 2011

Shows local temp, conditions easily and readily available. Many of the options are not described so don't know how to use many of them. Great program.

Rated 10/50 by rerozek0908 at Jan 22, 2011

i have no pro's, did not use Must pay after 30 days.

Rated 40/50 by mjglita at Feb 1, 2011

Very accurate weather forecasts & a good look. Slowed-up my laptop

Rated 50/50 by strawmanboater at Feb 28, 2011

Accurate local weather forecasting. Local weather is not great. Great for outdoors folk.

Rated 50/50 by preacher_man2004 at Mar 11, 2011

has very good details and maps as well as different types of alerts none that I can see at this time

Rated 50/50 by WeatherFreak at Mar 15, 2011

A great weather app. Keep up the good work!

Rated 50/50 by gate1975mlm at Mar 30, 2011

I think Weather Watcher Live is wonderful!! Its the best Weather software for Windows I have ever used! However its got 2 very annoying bugs! 1. Internet Explorer 9 causes the "Skin Tooltip" to show behide all opened windows! 2. The Temp icon in the system tray disappears for a few seconds when getting new weather info from local stations. If these 2 bugs can get fixed Weather Watcher Live will be perfect!! But I do have some hope that these 2 bugs will be fixed someday!

Rated 50/50 by Mike Singer at Apr 24, 2011

@Plumber, I'm sorry to hear that your troubles were not resolved. Send me an email and I'll refund your purchase.

Rated 40/50 by skylights at Jun 16, 2011

I've been using the last freeware version since it came out, and it works well. To the poster "plumber" below, you should know that you can easily fine-tune the tray tooltip so it shows the time of "last observed." Please stop posting your opinions on the Internet, as you're clearly unable to discern whether you're informed or not. I take a star off for it not being free anymore. Otherwise, great program.

Rated 40/50 by zcrewu at Jul 11, 2011

@skylights... I believe the reviewer was complaining that he doesn't like having to seek out the date/time of weather retrieval to see if it is timely, and that there should be some easier way provided by the interface, without having to check/compare dates/times. Sometimes it helps to read what people write.

Rated 50/50 by carmanwiam at Aug 19, 2011

I have been using it for a long time. Everything works fine. Nice interface and easy to use.