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Step 7 – You can try searching for it via Google or Bing but it still won’t load as you’ve successfully blocked access to the website’s hostname from the Hosts file.

You can now see that the page won’t load. When back up, in the address bar enter the site. Now get back to your browser and either refresh the page or close and reload the browser. Step 6 – In Notepad, click File > Save, to obviously save the newly edited Hosts file. Don’t add the HTTPS or the www part, just as it appears in the address bar. Press Enter a couple of times to start a new line under the last hash and type in: 127.0.0.1. Step 5 – Either close or minimise the browser window and get back to the Hosts file in Notepad. Open a browser and go to the BDM Publications website. Let’s say, for example, you want to block BDM Publications. Step 4 – It’s this fooling Windows that makes this such an effective solution to blocking sites, as you’re not fiddling with your router or other networking devices. This is the important entry, as we’re going to fool the networking services into believing that a website is stored locally. The localhost entry at the bottom of the file, 127.0.0.1 is your computer. Step 3 – You can see that the Hosts file is a historic text file dating back from the early days of networking and communications. Click on the Hosts file, then click the Open button. This will list the files within the etc folder. Click the drop-down menu saying Text Documents and change it to All Files. Step 2 – Within Notepad click File > Open and navigate to c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc. When Notepad appears in the search list, right-click it and choose Run as Administrator from the menu and click Yes for the UAC message authentication. To do this, click on the Windows Start button and type notepad.

Step 1 – First you need to open the Hosts file with administrative access. The Hosts file is simply a plain text file for mapping network locations and is checked by Windows to see if there’s an entry whenever the user requests access to a website or network resource.