Re: HOSTS ...again !
From: RJK (notatospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/15/04
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:02:52 +0100
Hi Kelly, that's a good idea, will do :-)
regards, Richard
"Kelly" <kelly@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Ever thought of posting this in the IE group, Richard and/or contacting
Mike
> via his email link?
>
> --
> All the Best,
> Kelly
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> "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23vy0G3iaEHA.1840@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >I just Norton ghosted XP pro on an 8gb hd, onto an 80gb hd, for a friend,
> > and all went swimmingly :-)
> >
> > We had some to spare...which is rare...so I popped
> > http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm 's host file into his
> > C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc folder, (even though the hosts file
seems
> > to
> > have been abandoned ? :-), and rebooted and it's being ignored by his XP
> > pro
> > / IE6 !
> >
> > WHAT IS IT WINDOWS ...regarding the hosts file? How much more crap have
I
> > got to learn about proxy servers and goodness know what else ? I
> > thought
> > the theory was, that the HOSTS file is just dropped into the etc
directory
> > and it's detected by Windows at start-up ? And the hosts filename,
(with
> > no
> > filetype), has to be in uppercase ? It's Hosts in the zip from the
> > above site.
> >
> > As a test, into his IE6 url address slot I typed www.tangozebra.com
> > which
> > should have been directed to 127.0.0.1 because this url is listed in
> > hosts -
> > the web site loaded, so Hosts was not being read by his XP / IE6 !
> >
> > Now during extensive tweaking on my own pc because hosts was being
ignored
> > by my XP Home ed. / IE6 , ..hosts suddenly started working and I don't
> > know
> > why ...which was REALLY annoying because I was trying to be methodical.
> > ...I was putting in no-ads.pac dun auto configuration script from
> > http://www.schooner.com/~loverso/no-ads/#howtouse and at one point I
> > thought
> > that http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=271361 had somehow triggered
> > something, somewhere to make XP use the hosts file. Then it seemed to
me
> > that IE6's security | Intranet setting "Include all sites that bypass
the
> > proxy setting" was what did the trick but, now it doesn't seem that way.
> >
> > Now this may sound daft but, I had a shortcut to the etc directory on
my
> > desktop, and I opened the etc folder, (where I keep hosts.zip), and
opened
> > hosts.zip and dragged Hosts from that zip file into the etc folder.
The
> > filename briefly appeared as Hosts , and without any intervention from
> > me
> > suddenly changed to HOSTS ...all uppercase. So what's going on here ?
> >
> > any thoughts appreciated
> >
> > regards, Richard
> >
> >
>
>
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