Block Certain Websites From Appearing In Browser(windows)

3 Jan 2015

Block Certain Websites From Appearing In Browser(windows)

By abhishek
3 Jan 2015
Tags: browser, how, tricks

This tutorial is for windows users only. If you want to block any website from appearing in your browser, No software needed! you just need to open host file, situated in system32 folder on the drive where you had installed your windows operating system. Copy the below code, paste in run and enter(for xp users).For win7 users, you can paste this in "Search program and files"(an alternative of run in win7) and enter

notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

A file like this should appear now.

Now list up the sites you want to block. While maintaining this format:-
eg. 127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www.thisisanexample1.com
127.0.0.1 www.thisisanexample2.com

you can add as many websites you can

this can be a handy tool, if you are a worried parent who want's to block Bad explicit websites from your child's reach. What ever your reasons are, this technique can be of great help to you.