Comments on: Edit hosts file in Windows 7 & Windows Vista

By: alessandro dias

alessandro dias — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:53:30 +0000

THANKS A LOT! Sad that actually we “have” admin rights and can´t do everything we like. But who cares, now I have it done! thanks again

By: SPIce

SPIce — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:50:00 +0000

Hi, thx for the hint… it surely saved me much time frickeling around, shouting at ms and my pc ;o)

Thx a lot!

By: Cameron

Cameron — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:34:07 +0000

Thank you for the information. I would never have figured out how to give the notepad administrative power on my own.

By: casey

casey — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:50:51 +0000

Hi – I’m runnign windows 7 and have follwed all the instructions. Even when using ultraedit to open the hosts file, the modifications are there and it is saved properly. I flush the dns and restart even and the entries aren’t resolving.

grrrr.

By: Anton

Anton — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:47:34 +0000

Helped me plenty! Thanks!

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:26:14 +0000

Thanks a lot man. this really helped me .People like you are the one who encourage me in Internet world .

By: badbob117

badbob117 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:30:37 +0000

yeah so after fiddeling with this in windows 7 and having sum issues with actually saving the file as a host and not a .txt file. i finally figured it out.

The notepad must be run as administrator and you must go to the properties of the host file and uncheck read only. once read only is unchecked you can modify and save the host file.

When you save it scroll down and save as “all types” or your hosts file will be saved as txt. file. it will tell you that file already exists and ” do you want to replace hosts with this file” Click ok.

It is a wise choice to actually save a backup copy of your original hosts file just in case you mess up some how. ya never know?

Now everything works fine. I blocked a ton of bad sites i was having problems with. Thanks for the tut and info. Much appreciated . =]

By: James

James — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:56:09 +0000

Thanks dude. Love your work.

By: Ms M Fish

Ms M Fish — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:39:47 +0000

Thanks a lot. This saved my life.!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Gobi

Gobi — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:50:53 +0000

It works for me,when I opened Notepad as “Administrator” and then open the host file from C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. After you make the changes then save it,it should works well.

Good Luck

By: david

david — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:36:01 +0000

thanks, it’s useful

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:22:29 +0000

I got there by copying this %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\
into the file name entry, takes you right to it.

By: hades

hades — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:00:49 +0000

Windows 7 use is an other hosts file
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-w..nfrastructure-other_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7100.0_none_d196965304ce3de

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:39:15 +0000

Peter: Give it another go. I’ve just verified that this definitely works with Win 7 RTM. Open Notepad > File-Open… > Drill down to the Hosts file > edit it > save it > done.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:55:25 +0000

Didn’t work for me! – In Win7, running Notepad as admin it still opens the hosts file as a sample, and will only allow me to edit the sample not the real hosts file…

I have some very old applications that wont work if I cant edit this – Really need the help here!

Hopefully someone found a working solution!

Thx!