Replace hosts file in vista

Paste as plain text instead. Only 75 emoji are allowed. Display as a link instead. Clear editor. Upload or insert images from URL. Sign in to follow this Followers 0. Recommended Posts. If your O. When i go to save the changes a window pop ups and says:The creation of this file cant be done it doesnt say that but i translate it because my pc is in greek and a little bit more down it says:Be sure that the destination in C and the name of the file are correct.

I dont know what happenned about few days later i could change the hosts but yestarday i couldnt. Also as suggested by Famy, in comment section disable user access control and reboot vista machine.

You have to change attributes to edit file. Share Tweet Share. Restart once. Vista suck says August 26, I did whatever u told me but nothing happened. This post looks at how to edit the hosts file on Windows Vista using notepad. The hosts file contains a list of IP address to hostname mappings and can be useful especially for web developers if they need to point a hostname to a specific IP address while developing or testing a website, without having to change settings on a DNS server.

Make sure that the path and file name are correct :.