TechBytes 02: Block certain sites from your computer! (Windows Platform)

Sometimes we want to block few websites so that other users of the computer can't visit those pages.
Today I'll show you how to do this from windows operating system based computers.

Let's do it then!

Step 1: Search for notepad, right click on that and select 'Run as administrator'

Opening notepad with admin access

Step 2: Press 'Ctrl+O', navigate to 'C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc' and double click on hosts

Opening hosts file

Step 3: Then at the end of the text file type in- "127.0.0.1 www.example.com" (w/o quotes)

Blocking Access to Facebook

Step 4: Press 'Ctrl+S' to save the file. Now use any browser to test your target site. You'll see that the site cannot be accessed anymore!

Blocking activated

What if you want to revert these things? Just put a # in front of 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file.

Example #127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

See you again shortly!

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