“
Block this site” my friend said when he was sitting on my laptop and instead of making the project ended up wasting the precious time on Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, Myspace or other sites like
YouTube and Metacafe. He was furious when he realized that all the time has been wasted and now he would be scolded for not submitting the project. This is really a bad situation, which makes us loose our important time, and with net work done zero.
Well this not the only reason we want to block the sites, in offices most times the employer doesn’t want their employee to spend time on Facebook, Twitter and other social
networking sites. Sometimes parents want to stop their underage children or siblings to access certain 18+ sites at home.
Here are the Steps on
How To Block a Website.
Step 1. Go to ‘C’ drive or whatever is the name of your OS drive.
Step 2. Open up the ‘WINDOWS’ folder and then go to the ‘SYSTEM32’ folder.
Step 3. Select the ‘DRIVERS’ folder and then go to the ‘ETC’ folder.
Step 4. Or instead just open the RUN feature of windows from start menu or using the shortcut keys of win+R and put this address:- c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
Step 5. In this folder you will see many files, just select the ‘HOSTS’ file and view its properties.
Step 6. Under the security tab click the edit button that will open another pop window here select the ‘USERS’ you want to block the sites for and check all the options under the ‘PERMISSION for USERS’ heading, {modify, read and execute, read, write}.
Security Tab
. Click APPLY and then OK.
Step 8. Locate the ‘HOSTS’ file again and now open it with NOTEPAD.
Step 9. Go to the last line which would be
127.0.0.1 localhost
Step 10. Add in the line beneath this line
127.0.0.1 URL_of_the_website {without the http:// and www.}
Step 11. Like if you want to block twitter insert this line
127.0.0.1 twitter.com
Block a Website
. You are done just save the setting and the file. Now if you try to open those websites it will show error.
Now you must be wondering what happened with this tiny line, well now this line tells the browser to point the address to the IP 127.0.0.1 which is your device only. Hence, you are unable to open the
web address.
We as usual if something can be locked it can be opened, you just need to find the correct key. In this case, the correct key is removal of the lines you added and you would be able to surf the net easily and can again waste the time.....
