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Re: What is the easiest way to edit the hosts file on Windows as admin?

From Lionel Muller <Erhohterlowe@neomailbox.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: What is the easiest way to edit the hosts file on Windows as admin?
Date 2017-07-11 17:19 +0000
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For alt.comp.os.windows-10 Lucifer Morningstar wrote:


>>What is the quickest way to edit the hosts file on Windows as admin?
> 
> Notebook.

I apologize for not making it clear that this is a question only Windows
experts can answer, which is how to edit the hosts file as admin in a
single click.

I googled what you were trying to say but Notbook is hardware as far as I
can tell so you must know something I don't know about "notebook".

If you meant "notepad", that's just an editor, so it's not a method,
although the editor will be what is used.

As Auric_ stated, without even thinking, one "could" use Notepad and click
click click click click click etc., to open the hosts file which is
embedded in the Windows hierarchy, but if that's what I wanted to do, I
never would have asked you experts for advice since even my 85 year old
mother knows how to do that.

What we're looking for is one-click efficiency.
What would be best would be to create a registry command:
 Start > Run > hosts <ENTER>
And that would edit the hosts file as admin.

But I can't get the App Paths key to do that yet.
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/App Paths/hosts.exe
Default = "notepad.exe C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts"

That would work just fine if Windows wasn't stupid when it comes to files
sans extension, for example, this works perfectly to edit the file (but not
as admin):
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/App Paths/hosts.exe
Default = "C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts.txt"

So the trick I am asking of Windows experts is what registry key to add
that will edit the hosts file as admin?

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What is the easiest way to edit the hosts file on Windows as admin? Lionel Muller <Erhohterlowe@neomailbox.com> - 2017-07-11 06:56 +0000
  Re: What is the easiest way to edit the hosts file on Windows as admin? Lionel Muller <Erhohterlowe@neomailbox.com> - 2017-07-11 07:07 +0000
  Re: What is the easiest way to edit the hosts file on Windows as admin? "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2017-07-11 07:33 +0000
  Re: What is the easiest way to edit the hosts file on Windows as admin? Lucifer Morningstar <not@for.mail> - 2017-07-11 17:44 +1000
    Re: What is the easiest way to edit the hosts file on Windows as admin? Lionel Muller <Erhohterlowe@neomailbox.com> - 2017-07-11 17:19 +0000
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      Re: What is the easiest way to edit the hosts file on Windows as admin? Lionel Muller <Erhohterlowe@neomailbox.com> - 2017-07-11 17:29 +0000
  Re: What is the easiest way to edit the hosts file on Windows as admin? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-07-11 09:43 -0400
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          Re: What is the easiest way to edit the hosts file on Windows as admin? Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2017-07-12 00:00 -0500
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