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| Guest | Re: Problem Modify hosts file in Windows Vista Check the properties, take ownership of it and make sure it's not read-only. -- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up! --: Original message follows :-- "MyWebTV" <MyWebTV@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6805C138-5306-4305-9626-BF2B47713702@microsoft.com... >I can't make any change to the hosts file in Windows Vista. Is any one know > how to do it ? Thx |
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| Newbie | Re: Problem Modify hosts file in Windows Vista You will have to take ownership of the file u want to modify. Step 1: Open Command Prompt with Administrators rights and run takeown /f C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Step 2: Run cacls C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts /G username:F Please replace username with ur logged in user name. Step 3: Make sure that "hosts" file is not readonly. Step 4: Open the host file in Notepad and modify it. Hope this works for u ![]() |
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