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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 17:29 +0000
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For alt.comp.os.windows-10 Mike Tomlinson wrote:


>>I put the hosts file on the desktop (Target:
>>E:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts)
>>
>>Now I just right click on that icon and select "open with notepad."
> 
> A good tip.  Thanks.

The goal is single click admin editing of the hosts file.
Only a Windows expert will know how to do this.

While I keep a perfectly clean desktop, I would put any links in the
cascaded menu, so that they work in a single click (although I prefer the
registry which is the simplest at 
 Start > Run > hosts <return>

I already have a shortcut adapted from the opening a command window as
administrator in my cascaded menu that works to edit the hosts file as
admin in a single click, but that menu shortcut also opens up a command
window which is an extra click to close.

In trying to understand your single-slick suggestion, you said you put the
"hosts" file on the desktop, and right clicked to edit it in Notepad, but I
think you missed a ton of steps because that doesn't edit the hosts file as
admin and put it back in without a txt extension.

You can force it to do that, but it's so many steps as to not qualify in
the least as a single-click menu solution.

But maybe I misunderstood what you were suggesting?
Can you clarify what I'm supposed to put in my menus that will open up the
hosts file as admin in a single click?

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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 07:07 +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
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