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From Leo's mailbag:

> From: A Computer User
> Sent: April 18, 2006
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: where is hosts?
>
> Leo,
> --------------
> Dear Leo~~~~ I always read over and over about Hosts files,
> but nowhere does it ever tell me how to find that file on my
> computer. Where do I go ? Which steps do I use??? I have
> never found that answer anywhere.

Hosts is located in

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

In other words, on your c: drive, in the windows
folder, in the system32 folder within that, in the
drivers folder within that... and so on.

(If windows was installed to something other than
c:\windows, that part be different, but the rest
is the same.)


Thanks for asking,

Leo

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