Sunday, 29 October 2017

BLOCK WEBSITES ON YOUR COMPUTER


There are certain Tricks to block a website from opening on your system :

METHOD 1 : USING WINDOWS HOST FILE


Step 1 :Open  “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc” in the Windows search bar or navigate to the folder by clicking your way through Windows Explorer.
Step 2 :Now after reaching to this path you will see a file named Host. Right click on that file and click on open with notepad.
Step 3 :In Notepad, you will see several lines of text used for mapping purposes. Go to the last line of text (it should say something regarding a local host), now press enter to move the cursor to the end of the file then type  “127.0.0.1″  (without codes)and press the spacebar.
Step 4 :Now, type the specified address of the website you wish to block on the same line. For example, type “127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com” , “127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com” to block all these sites.
Step 5 :Now Save this file and ignore if you receive any messages showing  you warning about this modifications.
Step 6 :Go to your browser and verify that the site you want to block isn’t opening anymore.

METHOD 2 : USING CONTROL PANEL

If you don’t wish to block sites using this host file or there is some problem in modifying that file , so you can do the same thing using another default function of windows i.e. Control Panel Parental Control.
For doing this , just follow a few steps given below and you are done :
Step 1 :Click on start button  > Go to control panel >  User accounts and Family safety > Set up parental control for any user.
How to block websites
List of all the users in your system will be displayed .
Step 2 :Now select the account for which you want to set the web filter and then under parental controls ,  click ON.
Step 3 :   Click on web filter.
Step 4 : Click on Block some websites or contents .
Step 5  : Click on Edit the allow and block list.
Step 6 : In the Website address box, type the address for the website that you want to allow or block, and then click Allow or Block.
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