How to block websites in Windows 7
Blocking websites in Windows 7 is easy if you know how to edit the hosts file. Here’s how to block some sites.
Blocking Websites in Windows7
The need to block websites is required in order to prevent misuse of the Internet in both home and office environment. Employer who want to enhance the productivity and prevent misuse of time and resources or Parents who want to protect their children from undesirable content on the Internet.
1. Open the Start Menu and click on Computer. In Computer navigate to C:/Windows.
2. Inside C:/Windows open system32 folder.
3. In system32 folder open the folder drivers.
4. Inside drivers open etc.
5. Inside the etc locate the file hosts
6. Right Click on hosts file and select Open with Notepad
7. The following hosts file text will be displayed.
8. Now suppose you want to block yahoo.com, then enter following lines in the file.
so write 127.0.0.1 yahoo.com
IMPORTANT: Open a notepad editor with admin rights if you can’t save the hosts file. To do that right-click on the notepad.exe in C:\Windows and click on Run as administrator. Else you can simply enter notepad.exe into the search bar, hold down CTRL + Shift and hit Enter
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Written by Naachiz Monday, July 25th, 2011
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