Block websites host file windows xp

ThreeLies Posted January 12, Try to see if it directly is ignoring the hosts file or just something with the browser. Change a site in the hosts file and redirect it to ' Eric Veteran Posted January 12, Posted August 12, Saint Shiv Posted August 13, Posted August 13, ComputerGump Posted April 15, Posted April 15, Nonsense - tab clearly still works.. Not sure what you were doing wrong, but tab is just fine.

If you right click on an Ad. If you visit frequently the same sites and there an annoying Ads that you would like to get rid of, put the Ads address in the block part of the Host file. The Zip file of "Host File Checker" program mentioned above includes a sample host file with a lot of common "junk" serving addresses that can be add to the blocking lines of your Host File.

Here is a small sample of "Junk" sites. Putting the localhost IP in front of the address will block the Site. The HOST file is a simple unprotected text file. All Rights Reserved. Example for a File: Copyright c Microsoft Corp.

Each entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one space.

Additionally, comments such as these may be inserted on individual lines or following the machine name denoted by a ' ' symbol. Also understand that www. For both of them to take us to the same website both must resolve to the same IP address. Enter the localhost IP of Press the tab key and enter facebook. Press Enter to go to the next line. Create a second line like the one above, but use www.

Open the command prompt and run ping facebook. Now open your web browser and go to facebook. It might still load! You should now see an error page. Maliciously editing the hosts file used to be a common attack by hackers. Easy Website Blocker is a portable freeware application with simple interface. All you need to do is add the website and save the changes you made. You can unblock selective blocked websites or unblock them all at once. You do not need to change the default Windows Installation folder until you face any problem.

The Web Blocker is not a portable application, to use it you have to install it. It has loads of features compared to all the other applications in this list.

Apart from just blocking websites on your account, you can easily monitor any other accounts too. Options like content filtering will block all websites in categories like Social Networking, adult material, games, proxy servers. The best thing of The Web Blocker is that it is password protected , hence no one can have access to the settings you are applying.

If you need to stop applications from auto updating, you will have to enter the update server address for that application in Hosts file or using the above applications. I hope this guide helps you out to block or unblock any website on windows easily.

Let me know if you face any problem while following the procedure by commenting below. Sir, thanks for the post. I am a Medical Representative, so I have to send report to the head office daily through internet. But in my locality only one good speed cyber cafe available.

But there are too many crowd. I usually use particular one computer. In this computer I save my all important data. But some young boy using this computer and delete my all data. I used folder lock, but they format the particular volume.

So, every day I sort my all important document.