How to open the Host file on Windows 10, edit the hosts file
The Host file is a file used in operating systems to store the IP information of the servers and the domain name Domain is pointed to. In the previous article, we showed you how to open the Host file on Windows xp/7/8/8.1 operating systems . With Windows 10 operating system, there have been many improvements, so opening the Host file on Windows 10 will also have many different ways
Instructions to open and edit the hosts file on Windows 10
How to open the Host file on Windows 10
Method 1: Open the Host file on Windows 10 from This PC
Step 1: Double-click the This PC icon and select the CLOUD drive
Step 2: In the C drive , click on Windows
Step 3: In the Windows section you find and click on the file System 32
Step 4: File System 32 is displayed, click on the item named driver
Step 5: In the driver folder , find and click on the etc item . This is the directory containing the host file - the file you are looking for
Step 6: To open the Host file, right-click on the file and select Open With . The window displays applications to open the file, but this is a text file so we will choose to open it with a Notepad file (Also you can also open it in MS Word or Wordpad format )
Method 2: Open the Host file on Windows 10 with the Run command
With the above opening, we know the path of the Host file has the following form: C:WindowsSystem32driversetc . So to shorten the operation we will use the Run dialog box to open. You do this by pressing the Windows + R key combination to open the Run dialog box
The Run window appears, enter the path: C: WindowsSystem32driversetc and press Enter
After pressing Enter will open the window of the etc folder containing the Host file . Here you also open the Host file according to the instructions above.
Method 3: Open the hosts file with SearchWindows
Similar to opening with the Run dialog box, we also open the Host file on Windows 10 by entering the path: C: WindowsSystem32driversetc in Search Windows .
You click on the Search Windows icon (magnifying glass) on the Taskbar or press the Windows key + SHOW
The Search Windows window appears, enter the path: C:WindowsSystem32driversetc . This will display the etc folder with the corresponding path. You just need to click to open the etc folder , open the Host file you do the same as above.
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So with the above 3 ways, you can easily open the Host file on Windows 10 . From here you can customize the Host file for each job purpose. However, editing the hosts file sometimes encounters some difficulties such as not being able to save the file after editing. If you encounter this problem, please refer to the article on how to fix the error of not saving the Host file that taimienphi.vn shared earlier.
- See also: How to edit the hosts file on Windows 11
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