How to block websites and why really you need to Know? Well,Blocking any website on your computer becomes necessary when you really want to make it your personal computer. Many times someone from your family or some irritating friend comes to you and want to use your computer to surf internet and then he start viewing videos on youtube or start chatting on Facebook regardless of whether you are liking it or not but you cant even ask them to leave.
Of course you never want that anyone use your computer for long time and keep using your internet while you just sit aside them to see what they are doing. You can simply block the sites and prevent them from opening in your system to get rid of this problem.
How to Block Websites on your Computer
There are certain Tricks to block a website from opening on your system :
Method 1 : Using Windows host file
For this method , you don’t require any additional software to be installed on your computer. All you need is a little bit knowledge and some basic file editing capability using notepad. Windows has this host file to map the ip addresses and host names of the host sites to your computer.
By using this trick you can make your computer to redirect again to your local machine instead of opening that host site. So for blocking any website using windows host file you need to follow some steps as given below :
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 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.
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.
So now you know 2 methods on How to block websites On your Computer easily on Your Computer.
access is denied! why?
u have ot login as administrator for that just do this start >accesssories>notepad>right click >then run as admintrator then do above stap it will work & to unblock just right click on that file >edit >then remove the block site name
i’ve tried the above method but i could’nt, this msg ‘access is denied’ always pop up……is there any solution??????plz….
hi jailangam, Are you logged in as a administrator ?
it cant be applied on addmin. acc. what wrong with that…….
but in Win 8 it is not working on my admin. account and saying that family safety cant be applied on administrator account
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Why we’re using ip address as 127.0.0.1
how to re-open d site if you wanna use it again
i cannot save the host file, its asking for administrator right
Yes you will Need the administrator Permission if you are not logged in as Admin.
how to remove block sites,
To Unblock that websites Again just Alter The step 4, Method 1, Remove the URL which you added earler to block websites…
Hope this helps.. :)
if you need block sites open like porn sites ? then go to play store and type hotspot shield and install the soft wear.. now you can see every blocking site open.. it’s also work on pc too..
how to unblock the sites in Android mobile any one know i am using wifi of other people so he block the sites is there any app or trick to open it
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