How to Block any Website on your Computer

Today i am going to tell you how to Block any Website in your Computer. Sometime you may need to block any site for several reasons so that nobody can access the site on your computer. You can prevent access to some sites for your child at home or for others on your office computer. You can block any site in any particular Browser that i will tell you later. But not i will tell you about how to block a Website in all your internet Browsers.

For this you do not need to use any software. You have to just work with Windows Hosts file. You have to add unsafe sites to the hosts file. It is very easy and most effective method that can prevent accessing to any site. So follow the steps if you want to do this. And for the both Windows XP and Windows 7 you can follow the same procedure.

Block a Website on your Computer

1. You have to open windows hosts file. So openC:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc from your Windows Explorer.

2. You will see ” hosts” file.

3. Open the hosts file with Notepad.

4. Now after “127.0.0.1       localhost” you have to add the site which you want to block. You have to add the site without www prefix and another line with www prefix such as 127.0.0.1        facebook.com and 127.0.0.1         www.facebook.com. See the example below.

127.0.0.1         localhost
127.0.0.1         facebook.com
127.0.0.1         www.facebook.com

5. Save the File.

you are done! Nobody can open the site which you have blocked.

Note: While opening hosts file, If you are using windows 7 then you may have to open Notepad as Administrator.