How to Completely Block Certain Websites in Windows XP
Sometimes it becomes very necessary to block certain Websites in the PC.Especially when you have a younger sister and brother at your home who is obsessed by the social networking sites like orkut,Myspace etc.How to do block certain Websites completely in your PC ?
1.Go to the start menu and in the Run dialog box type “c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts”
2.A notepad file will open.Scroll down to the end until you find ” 127.0.0.1 localhost”.
3.Just after this line type 127.0.0.1 (your site address).For example if you want to block orkut type
127.0.0.1 www.orkut.com
4.Save that file and you have successfully blocked the website on your computer.
If you want to block more sites open the same file and type the address of the website in successive lines.If you want to unblock these sites then open the same file,delete the website that you wish to unblock and save it.Its as simple as that.
Note :At first i tried to block the Websites from the Internet options.Under the Security tab there is an option of Restricted sites.I added the site which i wanted to block but it never worked.If anyone could suggest me why it didn’t worked it would certainly add to my Knowledge.
Tip: How to block websites in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome
this doesn’t work in my administrator account .
“Cannot find the path specified” appears when i saves the hostsfile.plz send me a solution
Manoj I think You can try this :
c:WINDOWSsystem32driversetchosts
Open it with Notepad and This will surely work.Tell me whether it worked or not
this procedure doesn’t work!!!
is there any other way to blocke a site?
thx
I block 2 sites and they’re still able to be accessed though google. they’re only blocked when typed in the search bar
This is unusual. But I have checked the steps mentioned here and they work fine.
This stuff don’t work !!!
Can you block websites from your internet, instead of doing it through the main menu? Just wondering?
Any who back to studying.
not working
This application http://bit.ly/bNSjiS is more effective than blocking websites because it just monitors websites during work hours. Team members can always use websites during lunch breaks. Also some employees need to use websites for work so it’s silly to indiscriminately block it.
Whether an application is blocked or not, self-control comes from within
Ive been using http://bit.ly/bJwmma .
It uses a better procedure than blocking social media sites because it only monitors websites during production
hours. People/Employees still have the option to use it for a breather or during breaks .
Sometimes they use it for work too in helping reach decisions. For me its really unnecessary to block websites.
It all works except for when I opened it (step 2) local host wasn’t there so I wrote it in myself, also does it matter where you save it because in would only save in documents
You have to save the hosts file in the same location where it originally was and not in any custom folder e.g My Documents etc
It will not allow me to save it in the original location
Just do this steps…
1.) First Click windows button + r button
2.) type this C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetc
3.) There should appear “C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetc” the folder of this …
4.) Double “Host”
5.) There will appear an option telling you where to open it..
6.) Choose “NOTEPAD”
7.) Then a notepad will appear
8.) COPY THIS 127.0.0.1 localhost
9.) Edit the localhost
Example 127.0.0.1 http://www.facebook.com
10.) Crtl “S” to save it..
11.) If you aare using windows 7 of any version of windows 7
12.) Run your computer in “safe mode”
13.) Then click windows + R
14.) Type this shet c:windows/system32/drivers/etc. OR
d:windows/system32/drivers/etc.
15.) then press the fucking ENTER
THAT”S ALL LOOSERS FOLKSS
I block 1 sites and they’re still able to be accessed though google. they’re only blocked when typed in the search bar