Saturday 25 August 2012

HOW TO LOCATE/EDIT WINDOW HOST FILE Complete Tutorials

HOW TO LOCATE/EDIT WINDOW HOST FILE 



  • locate host file on your computer


      C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Or 
Open RUN Window(windows+R button)

and paste below Code there


%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\


  • Here you will find a file called "host" ,this is your host file.



  • Go to folder and search options ---> view-->and uncheck hide file extention.



  • Now right click on hosts file and open it with notepad.



  • Hosts file will open in notepad so you can make any change it that file.

  •  Now save that file.
  • If it ask for save as then save that file on desktop. it will save as hosts.txt
  • Now right click on hosts file and delete that file.
  • Go to desktop and copy hosts.txt and paste it in place of original hosts file  location i.e C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

  • Again right click on hosts file and click on rename .

  • Now delete the extension .txt and save name.

  • Thats it . Now u can easily open that file as .txt nd save it directly in same location.




  • If you still have any doubt , you are free to comment below.




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