** pardon, ok, your immediate need is to work with the Hosts file. I haven't tried that Hosts program, but I like Sordum's PowerRun, and after trying various hosts editing programs that I couldn't wrangle, my favorite by far is Hosts File Editor+ Clanger is a reliable source and gave you one recommendation. Again, if you're like me, you're better off doing that with the guidance of a helpful user interface (GUI) and well-coded program. I did it few weeks ago.But I'll leave it to the braintrust above to tell you how it should be done correctly, if you still interested. But you CAN do it with NTLite on a live (already installed, up and running) Win10. It's a matter of understanding repercussions and being able to protect your PC's arse. There is the existing update "Compatibility update for upgrading to Windows 10 1803", integrate that as well.I'm not quite ready yet to have a system, especially if its Windows 10, with UAC/Admin prompts disabled. I'm planning to add those to the Update Downloader of v1.7 in the near future. \Sources folder and overwrite any existing files. if any issues, full reinstall (very rarely needed)Īnother layer to achieve the best Host Refresh experience is to make sure to use all of the latest Dynamic Updates, not easy to come by.Į.g. if any issues, Host Refresh (every 3-4 months, mainly as I remove more and more, or some removal had a fix or a leftover and I want to have those benefits on the previous removed components) The way I use it on my main machine from top to bottom: Yes, it is a bit dirtier than a full reinstall on the absolute sense (as your data is being copied over), depending on the previous components kept vs newly removed there could be some excess. It's fully done by the OS, Microsoft uses it for Windows Preview tests and weekly upgrades for the testers. Host Refresh migrates your installed apps and settings, so that's the easiest method to reinstall/upgrade a lite or corrupted OS. To go wild while being assured you can revert to a stable working system, you could use Windows System Restore, VirtualBox, cloned drives, or NTLite! Work on a clone (or etc) of your OS disk drive, and find/use software that's BOTH easy for beginners (like me) and useful for career criminal experts like Nuhi, Clanger and Kasual above (complement intended). I'd suggest finding ways to go crazy safely with all this stuff. You'll find some programs/coders are smoother than others, and it's not always about tweaking one particular thing in the OS, but also about your chosen method or software.Īll the folks above who've replied know best, but I feel I recognize myself in your confusion/consternation. Wups, i got long-winded, please skip to **, if you like, for my software recommendation to go wild on the Hosts file in safe environment. Well, one question might be 'Do any of the seasoned experts on this forum tweak their own systems to avoid having to click OK for program elevation prompts?' I'm guessing they don't and have good reasons that I'm not able to articulate responsibly.Ģ) choose your methods and software carefully. So, it looks like it has nothing to do with file permissions after all.ĮDIT 3: Why do I have to run certain things as an Admin if I have a Admin rights? What do I have to remove with NTLite to not have this problem?ġ) you gotta be sure you're not 'going commando', to borrow from user Code at RyanVM. Maybe that person made it not read only by removing the UAC with NTLite's previous version but that doesn't make sense. How do they do that? It looks like these same files made all this confusion since apparently the hosts.txt file is not read only by default and after they added the lines they set them as read only.ĮDIT 2: Forget it, I just unchecked the read only tribute (I don't know if I should've done that) and did some changes with notepad (without running it as an administrator) and it didn't ask me for a name for a new document. txt)? If not, how can I save the changes in the original hosts file without creating a new document? If they work, should I keep on doing changes in it and delete the original hosts file? There are files which do some changes in the original hosts file to block some website's access and don't create a new document. Will these new entries work or only the ones in the original hosts (the one which doesn't end in. But what I wanted was to do that without using programs.ĮDIT: I might have made a confusion after all with the hosts and hosts.txt files since if I'm not mistaken I added some lines into the first one after running it with notepad and after saving them it asked for a name (I didn't change the default one, hence the hosts.txt name) for a new document and after I selected the default one it created the mentioned hosts.txt file.
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