How to block Certain Websites on my computer

To protect your kids spending time a much time on their favourite websites or want to block not suitable for a child’s eyes or dont want someone uses your computer from visiting websites, here are free tips and trick you can uses without buying any software.

1) Click the Start button menu and select Run. Type:

c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

2) You will see a new window option and ask you to choose the program you want to use to open this file.

3) Select notepad option to open file and you can see some information like this:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 101.51.14.17 test.bloggeraz.com # source server
# 118.11.61.11 x.bloggeraz.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost

4) Goto the last line of the file and enter url you want to block. For example if you want to block youtube site or myspace site, just enter like below: