Block Websites on Your Computer

Blocking any website on your computer become necessary when you really want to make it your personal computer. Many times someone from your family or your friend comes to you and want to use your computer to surf internet and then he start viewing videos on YouTube or start chatting on Facebook regardless of whether you are liking it or not but you can't event ask them to leave.

Of course you never want that anyone use your computer for long time and keep using your internet while you just sit aside them to see what they are doing. You can simply block the sites and prevent them from opening in your system to get rid of this problem.

We have two methods to block websites on your Operating System

By Changing Window's Host File:

Windows has this host file to map ip addresses and host names of the host sites to your computer. By using this trick you can make your computer to redirect again to your local machine instead of opening that host site. So for blocking any website using windows host file you need to follow these simple steps as given below.

Step 1. Open "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc" by navigating through Windows Explorer

Step 2. Now after reaching to this path you will see a file name host. Right click on that file and click on open with notepad.

Step 3. In Notepad, you will see several lines of text used for mapping purpose. Go to the last line of text, now press enter and then type "127.0.0.1" and press space-bar.

Step 4. Now type the specified web address of the website you wish to block on the same line. For example: 127.0.0.1  www.facebook.com  as in below picture.

Step 5 :Now Save this file and ignore if you receive any messages showing  you warning about this modifications.

Step 6 :Go to your browser and verify that the site you want to block isn’t opening anymore.

Using Control Panel:

If you don’t want to block sites using this host file or there is some problem in modifying that file , so you can do the same thing using another default function of windows i.e. Control Panel Parental Control.

For doing this, just follow these steps:

Step 1. Open Control Panel and go to User accounts and Family safety and then click on Setup parental control for any user

Start > Control Panel > User accounts and Family safety > Set up parental control for any user

List of all the users in your system will be displayed.

Step 2. Now select the account for which you want to set the web filter and then under the parental control, click ON.

Step 3. Click on web filter.

Step 4. Click on Block some websites or contents.

Step 5. Click on Edit the allow and block list.

Step 6. In the Website address box, type the address for the website that you want to allow or block, and then click Allow or Block.