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Windows 7 Hosts File Ignored: recreate it and you’re back in business

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/17

Wow: I never noticed this before, but thinking back it has happened to me at least a few times years ago: [WayBack] Windows 7 Hosts File Ignored.

The trick is to create a new hosts file as Administrator.

I thought it had to do with proper line endings: Notebad messes those up every now and then. But I was wrong: even with Notepad++ this happens, see [WayBack] I just had to trouble shoot a Windows XP (!) issue where the entries in the hosts file were being ignored. The change that actually worked was: 1. Crea… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

–jeroen

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