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 “notepad c:WINDOWSsystem32driversetchosts“
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.
