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How To Block Websites, Blocking websites using hosts file

I recommend saving a copy of the Hosts file, and hiding it somewhere on the computer,
this will become our back up copy should we ever need one

Ok first off we need to open the correct file. let's do that now.

1. open C drive or your designated hard drive, which is D drive for some user's.
2. go to the windows folder and open it
3. now open the system32 folder
4. open the drivers folder
5. open the etc folder
6. now we see a file called hosts. we need to right click on this file and choose open
7. with. choose open with, select from list, and we use notepad to open the file.
8. we need to scroll down where we see 127.0.0.1 localhost
9. skip a line under 127.0.0.1 localhost.
10. this line should be empty, and under this line here, we will start blocking sites.
11. now we will enter, 127.0.0.1 www.sitename.com #blocked, do not add http://
12. click the close button when your finished and say yes when asked to save changes.