Hello readers, I want to make this tutorial on how you can restrict your PC from opening a site.
This can be really helpful sometimes. How? Let's say you bought a laptop for your son/daughter and you are really concerned about his online
Or let's just say you want to mess with a friend's laptop....
Disclaimer: This tutorial is just for educational purpose.
OK. Let's go down. I hope you are using a windows Os?
==> First of all you need a notepad app. You can just search for it. It is by default installed on your PC.
==> Just locate your notepad, right click and run it as an administrator.
This varies in differnt windows, but they are all similar.
==> After that, your notepad opens. Just go to file which is located at the top left or simply press Ctrl+O.
==>Now , go your local hard disk. Walk through this folders:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
==> By default, the last folder being etc is blank. This is because the files it contains are not text files.
==> Now at the right bottom,
change it from text document-- all files.
==> Now about five files are visible. Open the file named host. That is actually your host file. What you will see a will look like this.
NB. All those lines that began with #'s are nothing. They are just comments. They tell the computer nothing.
==> So let's say that you want to stop someone from accessing Facebook. Just begin another line without the # and do this:
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
==> It will now look like this:
NB. I put the WWW version of Facebook and the non WWW version.
You can put as many websites you want to put.
==> After editing, save it. Now go to any browser and try open facebok.com or www.facebook.com
You will get these feedbacks depending on your browser.
To undo this, just locate the host file and erase the lines without #'s you put before and save it.
Thanks for reading.
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Nice post dude. Thanks for sharing.
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