How To Block Websites In Windows 7?

How To Block Websites In Windows 7

There are some websites which you may not find suitable in your home network especially when children can access Internet too. It’s not possible to track their activities, but there’s a way using which you can block websites in Windows 7 easily. Here’s a short tutorial on how to block websites in Windows 7. (by Abhinay)

let's start!

  

• Click on Start button, search for “Command Prompt or CMD”.
• Open the Command Prompt from the search results.

• Now type : “notepad C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts”(without quotes).
• Notepad will pop-up as soon as you hit the enter.
• In the notepad file, scroll down to the last line, mentioning some text “127.0.0.1 localhost”.

• Now to block websites, say Yahoo.com, add these lines below the 127.0.0.1 localhost as shown in the image.
• Add as many as URL with the prefix 127.0.0.1(one URL per line) and save the file.
• Now “www.yahoo.com” website is blocked in Windows 7.
• Remove the URLs from the notepad, to access them back.

However, if you don’t want to play with your localhost files and settings, then there’s a trick for novice users too, using which they can simply block website in Windows 7. Here’s how to block websites using a different method.

How To Block Websites In Windows 7[Another Method]

• Click Start Button, search for “Internet Options”.
• A new Window, Internet Properties will open.
• Under Privacy Tab, click on Site

• Add the Web Address, you want to block, in the text field provided there in the next window.
• Click on Block button to block the web address. OK to confirm.
• Now the website specified there, is blocked.