Edwin said:
I have just installed 8.1 and although I am in California
and have set the language and region to US, the start screen
apps continue to show data for London, England.
I have been through the control panel, help etc
with no success. There must be a hidden setting that
is not in the help or other documentation?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/weather-app-faq
"Applies to Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1
The Weather app can detect where you are and
display the local weather.
1. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen or right-click
with your mouse.
2. Tap or click the button marked Current Location.
"
You would be running the Weather App in Metro full screen
mode, while doing those actions, at a guess.
I haven't tested that, but give it a try.
While nominally the OS has slider switches, and some
of those switches could control "location awareness",
it's hard to say what that Weather App setting is really
doing. Whether it just punches a hole in Location Awareness
so you can get the weather, or whether it is changing
Location Awareness for the whole machine.
And depending on algorithm, Location Awareness isn't all that good.
For example, I might be mistaken for a resident of a city five
hours drive from my current location. By using my ISP head
office as the "location" for example. The best Location methods,
can triangulate your location to two city blocks uncertainty
(time of flight methods, multiple probes).
*******
The alt.comp.os.windows-8 group is available for Windows 8 questions.
There is no guarantee the group is available on all servers.
It might not be in Google Groups for example.
It would be available on AIOE or Eternal-September INN servers.
Paul
