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Click Save, this will save "hosts. From your Desktop right-click hosts. Click Next, click Next, select the option: " Show Extracted files ", click Finish Note: 3rd party unzipping utilities menu items may differ This will open the newly created hosts folder on your Desktop.
Double-click on the included mvps. Win7 users right-click and select: Run As Administrator. The key being the "Etc" folder Note : this assumes Windows is installed in the default location. In the event you already have an existing HOSTS file you will be prompted with the image to the right. If the existing file looks like this [ screenshot ] that's the version original shipped with Windows. This just refers to your own computer; Any other line that doesn't start with a can be deleted or if you're afraid to completely delete a line then just comment out the line using the symbol which will disable the entry.
Then if everything is working properly you can come back later and clean out unneeded lines. That's all there is to it. It's pretty simple to fix but a hosts file can cause a lot of problems if it is modified by a malicious program. If you're still having problems, or if you're hosts fixes keep coming back then you probably have a larger problem in which case you may want to check out another Tech Help article on Spyware Removal. How to Check and Fix your hosts file on Windows XP Is your browser automatically being redirected when you try to visit a website?
Check your Windows XP host file and clean it out. The Problem You try to visit a website and your internet browser keeps on redirecting to different sites, with popups, and content that aren't even close to the address you typed in.
What is a hosts file Without going into any great detail you only need to understand the following: Every computer connected to the internet is not assigned a name, it is assigned a number called an IP address. Open the Hosts File If you double click the file and it asks which program to open this file with, select Notepad and make sure you leave the 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file' box unchecked.
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