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The Windows Hosts file is a file that Windows uses to control and map IP addresses. By editing the Hosts file, Windows can be customized to block or redirect specific websites and even protocols that are used by programs and applications. To get started editing the Windows Hosts file, you first need to locate it. Open Windows Explorer and click on  This PC  or  My Computer . Double-click on C:\, then the  Windows  folder and scroll down the page until you reach the  System32  folder. Inside of that folder, open  drivers  and then open  etc . You’ll now see several files, one of which is  hosts . Now, notice that the file type for the  hosts  file is listed as  File . Because there is no default program set to open a file type like this, double clicking the hosts file will simply give you a Windows prompt, asking you which program you would like to use to open the file. From this prompt, you ca...