Block any Websites in your Computer?

Sometimes we need to Block certain websites from our computer for kind of reason. It’s very important to parents because most of the parents want to prevent access to certain websites on their computer so that children can’t get to them from internet.

Here we would like to share a very simple solution.

• First of all open you’re My Computer
• Alternately, go to C:\ Drive by double clicking it
• Open the Windows directory in the same way
• Under the Windows directory, open the System32 directory
• Under the System32 directory, open the Drivers directory
• Under the Drivers directory, open the Etc directory
• And then find the file “hosts”

windows XP, the hosts file is found here:

C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts

If you are not in the right place, go back and make sure you have followed the steps correctly.

Once you have found the hosts file, Double click the 'Hosts' file and select "Notepad" from the list of programs to open it with. Once you have the hosts file open in Notepad, at the end of the file you will see an entry such as: “127.0.0.1 localhost”.

Under “127.0.0.1 localhost” just add another website URL that you want to block.

For Example:-

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.2 http://www.yahoo.com/
127.0.0.3 http://www.google.com/
127.0.0.4 http://quickpctips.blogspot.com/

Make sure that, every time you add another website, the last digit of the address 127.0.0.x should not be the same.

Once you finished, go up to ‘File’ save the file and Exit.

So here you go, the web pages listed in your 'Hosts' file should be blocked from access. It may be necessary for you to reboot or restart your Computer for these changes to take effect.

The good thing is that no message, no pop ups nothing will be displayed when someone tries to open a blocked website. Your browser will just fail to open those websites without any error messages.

We wish you good luck and enjoy our tips