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Also, as someone posted elsewhere, don’t use “nslookup” to test this because that command ignores the hosts file. Rather use “ping”. I found solution at last.. But I need to repeat it, or else restart Chrome, every time I change the hosts file.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Based on my own experience and what I encountered while Googling, here are some things to try: 1. Did you check that it works correctly? If yes, your hosts file is fine and the problem is elsewhere. Basics Is your hosts file named correctly? It should be hosts and not host , etc. Is the extension correct? It should have no extension hosts not hosts.

Did you follow the correct syntax? Did you accidentally prefix lines with a hash which indicates comments? Did you take care of all variants www. Lastly, terminate the file with a blank line. Registry Key There is a registry key specifying the location of the hosts file. Permissions Sometimes there are issues with permissions on the file, the file attributes, and similar things.

To recreate the file with default permissions: Create a new text file on your desktop. Copy and paste the contents of your current hosts file into this file in Notepad.

Save the new text file and rename it to hosts. Last point is important: Copying works, moving doesn’t. If you can’t see the hosts file, ensure you can see hidden and system files. Right-click on the hosts file and select Properties from the context menu. In the hosts Properties window, click on the Security tab.

Examine the list of names in the Group or user names: box. If Users is not present, or is present but does not have Read permission, click Edit If Users is not present, click Add Click OK. If a Windows Security alert box pops up, choose Yes to continue. Click OK to close the hosts Properties window. Go up to section 1 of this answer and follow the directions to check if it’s working now.

Proxies If you have a proxy configured, it may bypass the hosts file. DNS address This may also resolve proxy issues. If you have more than characters on a line or more than 8 hosts entries for an IP create a new line ie instead of 1. Improve this answer. Tim I’m almost crying, so many ours going crazy for a SPACE at the beggining of a blank entry between 2 lines.

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!! The best workaround is just use the Windows version of Notepad which is bit.

Good post, but with a couple errors. Win7 can be funny with permissions. You can add to this that there is a line length limit. I’m not sure what the limit is, but my line was characters long 16 hostnames and the last few hostnames were not registered.

When I split them into two lines, they all registered correctly. Show 18 more comments. Make sure you have put the ipaddress first and then the “domain” like this: Gustaf Gustaf 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges.

I prefer to use a single line: This bit me and took a while to figure out. Do not use the. It is a valid generic global TLD owned by Google, and you will get a lot of problems using it.

See ma. Rookie mistake, but it worked. David Siviour David Siviour 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. That was it! I’ve been baffled by this problem for years.

Thank you so much. I am very pleased to finally have my hosts file back. It contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names for the home network.

ICS file. Any changes may result in a loss of connectivity between machines on the local network. Unick Unick 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. From support. Avoid making changes to this file to prevent the loss of connectivity or data.

The Hosts file with no file name extension is the file to which you add information about statically configured clients. Something else might be causing Windows to ignore your Hosts files, like maybe a wrong but hidden extension.

In any case I don’t know whether that works. Thank you. I will do this. If you can spare the time, could you explain what happens when these entries are made in “hosts”.

What difference does it make when we use As I mentioned before I am a novice. I would really like to be able to understand these things. Any suggestions of books, websites etc.

Since you seem to want to understand why things are the way they are, floccinaucini , I just wanted to mention that the UAC User Account Control feature of Windows is why you were unable to write your hosts file back to your own hard drive even though you’re the Administrator of your computer.

It’s a bit more complex than this, but in a nutshell UAC causes you to run your applications as though you’re a non-privileged user. In this particular case UAC blocked you from doing something legitimate, but in the general case the idea is to block malware you might unexpectedly run from making unexpected changes to things it has no business changing, thus averting infections.

This is a good thing to keep in mind if you unexpectedly get a UAC prompt that asks whether you want to allow particular software to make changes to your computer. Don’t just answer “Yes” without thinking about it. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 User Interface.

Sign in to vote. Wednesday, November 30, PM. Find Notepad under Accessories. Furthermore: I have on Windows 7 experienced that changes to the hosts file are not saved, even though it goes through the saving process without any issues.

Marked as answer by floccinaucini Thursday, December 1, PM. It’s like “Hey, are you there? Deleting the file and recreating it got it working on those occasions. You don’t see the dot. TXT file will not work. Thursday, December 1, PM. Marked as answer by floccinaucini Sunday, December 4, PM. Sunday, December 4, PM. I am not quite sure why it’s not working with the What happens when you ping the NAME of the website you’re trying to block?

Then you go to a command prompt and enter PING www. What address does it tell you that it’s trying to ping? So, private LAN’s are always configured with one of the following networks: Marked as answer by floccinaucini Monday, December 5, PM.

Monday, December 5, AM. Oh, I see your problem. Don’t put in front of the addresses you wish to enter. The sign is telling Windows that it’s a comment, and is therefore ignored. Marked as answer by floccinaucini Tuesday, December 6, PM. Tuesday, December 6, PM. I’m glad it worked, and I’m happy I was able to help you.

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At Kinsta we provide a temporary URL sitename. If you want to remove this lock at any point, simply navigate back to the Properties window. You could simply add an exception to your antivirus, open the hosts file windows 10 hosts file not saving free download the Notepad application, and then make your changes. When I gave the Users group full control of the file Читать полностью was able to easily save it. With this setting enabled, Firefox will use the DOH server as the primary name resolver, rather than checking your local hosts file or DNS resolver. If you are unable to save hosts file changes.

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› en-us › topic › how-to-reset-the-hosts-file-back-to. On the File menu, select Save as, type “hosts” in the File. Close Notepad. Open the %WinDir%System32DriversEtc folder. To do this, follow these steps.