How To Block Websites Without any Software

There are many reason why you need to know how to block a website. Some of the most common reasons are you have been targeted by spammers who use adware and popups to attack your PC. Other reasons may be to prevent your children from having access to certain site content such as porn and gambling.

You need not waste money on buying software's to block websites you can use this method to block any website you want 

How to Block websites without any Software 

1. To block websites we need to edit Host file which is usually in C:/Windows/System32/drivers /etc
2. To edit Hosts file open notepad click open and go to  C:/Windows/System32/drivers /etc

3. Open the host.file which looks like image shown below

4. Now enter 127.0.0.1   and  the "website you want block " without quotes 

                                                                                                                              

 

5. You can add all the websites that you want to block  in the same format and finally click save  That's it we have successfully blocked  websites by editing the hosts file

   
6. If you find it difficult to do it manually every time  you can make a batch file to block  websites 

Example :-

@echo off
echo 127.0.0.1    www.google.com >> C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.txt
echo 127.0.0.1    www.yahoo.com  >> C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.txt
exit

7. Copy the above code in a note pad and save it as something.bat .Now once you click the the batch file google.com and yahoo.com are blocked you can modify the batch file according to your needs


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