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Old 14th Oct 2010, 22:55
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mad_jock
 
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Windows 7 hosts file
Just tried to stick some entrys in my hosts file in windows 7 Home premium.

What a stupid pain in the backside system for editing system files.

I am logged in as admin can I edit them NO

I have to run as administrator notebook

Does this allow me to edit them NO

After 40 mins fiddling with the file permissions I eventually get to save the hosts file I want.

And thats another thing the hosts file in etc doesn't work

you have to go to

CWindows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-w..nfrastructure-other_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_6079f415110c0210

and modify the hosts file in that.

I had been quite happy with windows 7 but what a bloody PITA.
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