There are several software that you can use to automatically block websites on your Windows PC but if you prefer to do it manually, you can. It cannot be done via the Windows Registry however you modify the "hosts" file of windows to block particular websites. To disallow your browser from accessing particular website, follow this instruction.


1. From your windows desktop, click windows START button
2. Choose RUN to display the Run dialog box.
3. On the Run dialog, enter "notepad \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts". (alternately you can use windows explorer to browse to "c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc" then locate the hosts file.)
4. Press enter to open the hosts file using notepad.
5. Add a line into the file that looks like this.

127.0.0.1 www.xxx.com
127.0.0.1 www.youporn.com
127.0.0.1 www.dontgohere.com

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