I am getting this error msg in FS2004 now. I have changed nothing in my configuration. What's going on?"An error occurred while downloadingReal-World Weather. Please check your Internetconnection and configuration and try again."I can dial-up just fine, but FS2004 won't dial as it previously did.Anyone else experience this? Thanks..Rhett

I have never encountered this exact message. BUT!!!! Every time I have experienced similar errors, it had turned out to be something that I did within some program's "Properties" screens. I'd suggest that you start with Internet Explorer properties (or what ever browser that you use) and trace thru you ISP software and all the way to the MODEM hardware properties.Usually for me, I've been tweaking something and changed a parameter that should not have been changed. Oh, and usually I don't remember doing it until after the fix is in (if ever). R-

Thank you thank you ronYou sparked my mind, I went to Internet Options and enabled cookies;for some reason they were disabled.duh!It appears that if you have cookies disabled or somewhat limited, you cannot download real weather in FS. I moved the slider to "accept all cookies" was I able to get it working.

One reason may be because FS stores wx info. in your Temp. Internet Files folder.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Support

I assume you have IE. I don't think that it's the cookie setting. I have mine set to medium for the default 'Internet' zone and it works OK. Setting the cookies to 'allow all' will open the window too wide which will allow certain sites to put what are called 'data miner' cookies on your PC. Some will get on anyway unless specifically blocked, but that's another issue.Two things come to mind.* Your IE is set to 'work off-line'. 'File/Work Offline' ticked on the IE menu. This sometimes happens to me when I forget to reset it after I actually was working offline.* Sometimes, but infrequently, my IE 'Tools/Internet Options/Connections' setting gets reset to 'never dial a connection'. I don't know how this happens but I suspect it has something to do with AOL.

Thanks to everyone in this post for discussing the weather download problem and potential fixes. You all saved me a bunch of time troubleshooting. My IE was set to "work off-line", which did indeed cause the error message discussed above. Sort of a tricky thing to remember!

>Thanks to everyone in this post for discussing the weather>download problem and potential fixes. You all saved me a>bunch of time troubleshooting. >>My IE was set to "work off-line", which did indeed cause the>error message discussed above. Sort of a tricky thing to>remember! Here I am January 2k5 and had the same problem.Yep! IE was "off-line." I use Firefox most of the time so I'd forgotten that I had turned IE off-line a couple days ago.Thanks guys!

Interesting how a good solution in the message archives keeps on giving. Several months elapsed between the time of BobZ's post and when I found his solution and thanked him. Then several months after that, you find the solution as well.Good search! BTW, I've moved on to Active Sky and I would recommend that program. :-)