Scroll down to the bottom. Double-click the folder named “Windows”.
Right click “hosts”. In the menu that opens, click “Open With…” (or “Open with another program”). A new menu called “How do you want to open this file?” will open. Select “Notepad”.
If there isn’t any space to type by default, click at the end your document and hit your Enter button two or three times to create space.
Alternatively, you can type a single space instead of pressing Tab.
Entering variants of the websites will help ensure that they’re blocked, like yahoo. com or m. yahoo. com
Click “File”. In the dropdown menu, click “Save”.
Open a browser of your choice. In the URL box, type the website that you’ve blocked in your hosts file. Type them exactly as you’ve entered them in the original file.
If you’re still able to access the website, either copy from the browser and paste it into your hosts file. Be sure to save the hosts file after making any changes. If there is web server software running on your computer, you may connect to your local web server rather than seeing a “refused to connect” page.
In the blank window that appears, type sudo nano /etc/hosts Press Enter.
Open the hosts file. After pressing enter, a new window will open for you to edit. The hosts file is used to dictate how different web sites connect to your computer and save data.
If there isn’t already any space, click your mouse at the end of the last line of text and press Enter to create a new line to write on.
Typing in variations of websites will help ensure that they’re blocked, like bing. com or m. bing. com
If, when you save, your file name ends with “-original”, delete that ending.
Open the Start Menu at the bottom of your screen. Click on the Control Panel shortcut. In Windows 10, type Control Panel in the Start Menu’s Search bar.
In Windows 10, you can type “Internet Options” in the search bar in the upper right corner of the Control Panel window.
Scroll through the categories under “Select a category to view ratings”. There’s a slider that allows you to set the acceptable level each category is blocked. A slider set to the far left will allow all content related to a category while a slider set to the far right will not allow any related content.
Re-enter the password to confirm. Click Apply. If you’ve already used Content Advisor, re-enter the password you created the first time. Enter and re-enter the password you wish to enable the content advisor.
Click Settings. Enter security password. Click on the Approved Sites tab.
Click on + Add to Chrome in the upper right corner of the pop up module. A dialogue box will appear saying “Add Block Site?”. Click “Add extension”. Extension will appear in the download bar at the bottom of the screen. Once extension has been downloaded, there will be a dialog box saying Block Site has been added to Chrome.
Right click anywhere on the web site. In the dropdown menu, hover over “Block site”. Click “Add current site to blacklist” in the secondary menu.
Right click anywhere on your browser window. In the dropdown menu, hover over “Block site”. Click “Options” in the secondary menu. Chrome will open a new tab with settings for the Block Site extension. In the left sidebar, click “Block words”. Toggle “Custom list” to on. In the text box, type in the word you wish to block. Click the “Add word” button next to the text box.
