How do I save the hosts file in Windows?

[Durbs]

If that happens, just save it to your desktop and then cut and paste the file into drivers\etc from there, it'll raise the Windows 'Do you want to........etc' dialog..

[pmeswani]

Sorted.

Unlocked, edited, then relocked through Spybot.

Ahhh.. the good old Spybot block. Glad you got it sorted.

[cojak]

Sorted.

Unlocked, edited, then relocked through Spybot.

[pmeswani]

Spybot has locked my hosts file.

I'm trying to get into now...

Glad to be of help.

[pmeswani]

Works on the Citrix tulipe we have at work and we aren't admins!

Point taken tho - u can add the 'runas' bit I can't remember the syntax for it anymore, hardly ever use Windows thank God.

Would it be:

'runas DOMAIN\user "notepad C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"'

vi /etc/hosts is sooo much easier....

Can't comment on Citrix stuff. May be able to open a file, but unless the file permissions allow you to modify / save the file, I would be surprised if it would work.

[cojak]

Spybot has locked my hosts file.

I'm trying to get into it now...

[cojak]

Thanks guys.

[stek]

The shortcut would need to run as an administrator for that to work.

Works on the Citrix tulipe we have at work and we aren't admins!

Point taken tho - u can add the 'runas' bit I can't remember the syntax for it anymore, hardly ever use Windows thank God.

Would it be:

'runas DOMAIN\user "notepad C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"'

vi /etc/hosts is sooo much easier....

[pmeswani]

You can have a desktop shortcut:

'notepad C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts'

The shortcut would need to run as an administrator for that to work.

[stek]

'Snot R/O is it?

.... only asking.....

Two words.

Windows
Security

[Drewster]

'Snot R/O is it?

.... only asking.....

[stek]

You can have a desktop shortcut:

'notepad C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts'

[pmeswani]

I've made a small change but when I try to save I get:

"Cannot create the C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file.

Make sure that the path and filename are correct."

How do I save?

If you are using Windows 7 or Vista, you need to modify the file with elevated rights (i.e. run notepad in "Run this as an Admin" mode). Then you can save the file directly into the system32\drivers\etc\ directory.

HTH.

[cojak]

I've made a small change but when I try to save I get:

"Cannot create the C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file.

Make sure that the path and filename are correct."

How do I save?