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How to Edit the Hosts File in Win7

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Uploaded by on Jun 14, 2010

This video outlines exactly how to get to, and cleanly edit, the hosts file in Windows 7.

A lot of people have been asking about this so I thought I'd show you how I do it. It always should work, and you don't have to set crazy permissions or anything. (:
Grant it, I'm on the admin account, not a guest account.

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  • thanks man 

  • @TheFastEddy32 Np! Thanks for watching

  • Thank you so much, you were very helpful!

  • @traceytrang No Problem!

  • PLEASE ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!

    every time I try (do exactly what you do) to edit the host files by copying the hosts to desctop and then change what I want when saving it creates a new wordpad file instead of changing the origina...(same thing happens with notepad..

  • @MIke1SB I don't know what is happening. The only thing I can suggest is to run word pad with Admin permissions. (Right click> Run as Admin)

    Then go to File>Open, and open the hosts file for editing, and saving.

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  • @mutantcolors TRY/watch?v=a1dY-_aM058&featur­e=related WATCHING THIS good luck tell me how it goes worked 4 me

  • @mutantcolors Try THIS and good luck let me know how it goes. worked!

  • Thank you Alot

  • Thanks!”

  • YOU SOUND LIKE DEXTER!!

  • god bless you sir.

  • Hey mate, could you please tell me the exact text i've to fill in in the 'hosts'-file?

    did just download Adobe After Effects CS5 and dealing with the hosts-problem now

    but i fucked up quite hard, after i did the ipconfig/flushdns thingy my browser started showing several errors

  • Eternal thanks. Question: different links to block for other adobe programs, or is this the only one needed? If yes, how's a guy find the other links to add to the block list?

  • Thanks so much!!!

  • Thank you so much,very informative and worked as you said.

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