If you're in doubt, leave it alone
You have a file in your C:windowssystem32driversetc folder called hosts
NOTE! Not hosts.txt or anything else.
Open this file (Or better yet, create a new one) using Notepad and copy in the entireity of that web page from the line
# This hosts file is brought to you by Dan Pollock and can be found at
to
# John Mueller and Lawrence H Smith for Mac Pre-OSX information
NOTE: the lines starting with # are not compulsory, but it's useful if you ever find that you want to read the instructions again!
And save. Ensure that the filename is purely "hosts" and not "hosts.txt" or similar (You may need to enable the viewing of file extensions (Tools>Folder Options>View, untick "Hide file extensions for known file types")
Again, if you're not confident in following those instructions it's probably best to leave it alone. You can do similar things with Adblock but this will work on absolutely anything on your computer which accesses the internet.
Posted By: Iwan Husarmi on January 20th 2010 at 19:41:19
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- FAO Iwan H (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jan 20, 19:11:19
- If you're in doubt, leave it alone (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Jan 20, 19:41:19
- i believe you discovered this trick on here yourself, IH (General Chat) - Dave in France, Jan 20, 19:53:07
- Possibly. Either way, it's about the most useful thing I have ever found (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Jan 20, 19:56:33
- think it's a bit pass? now to be honest (General Chat) - Dave in France, Jan 20, 20:05:20
- Possibly. Either way, it's about the most useful thing I have ever found (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Jan 20, 19:56:33
- Done. Super. (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jan 20, 19:51:10
- Ah - thank you (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jan 20, 19:44:27
- i believe you discovered this trick on here yourself, IH (General Chat) - Dave in France, Jan 20, 19:53:07
- Best way to try adblock out on those awful chatroom ads (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Jan 20, 19:18:41
- float it (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 20, 19:31:14
- It has. Since I added Adblock I can use the chatty with Firefox (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jan 20, 19:21:54
- If you're in doubt, leave it alone (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Jan 20, 19:41:19
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