Yesterday I realized my hosts file went missing. This happened within the last week. UAC is on and my computer is clean so I assume this wasn't caused by malware, but I'd like to know what program did this. Is there any sort of log I can access that will show me that information?
View 3 Repliesbasic system details:- PC:Intel. Core i7CPU 975 @ 3.3Ghz (not overclocked) Total CPUs 4 x 2=8...12 GB DDR3 RAM - Hard drive (1000.20 GB). Dual boot -Windows XP Pro SP3 (86 - 32 bit) Win 7 Pro- SP1.. 64 bit Graphics: 4 x NVidia GeForce 295..Sound-Creative GTX I have hosts file installed but at each boot into Win 7 (not when booting into XP), I get a message telling me that Hosts file manager cannot verify my hosts file, do I wish for new hosts file to be installed [yes or no] replying YES I get new hosts file installed and another pop up question "Do i want my additional entries addded [yes or no] with YES, my additional entries are restored to the new Hosts file. This all happens even if I have just installed a new edition of hosts file , my latest being Sept 5th.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI didn't find a hosts file in the SysWOW64 folder, but I did find one in the "usual" place windowssystem32driversetc and I see it's NOT set to read-only. But when I try to edit it with notepad and save as "all files" rather than .txt (to avoid notepad giving it a .txt extension) it fails to save. It tells me I don't have permission (even though my user account is an administrator).
Is there some reg trick to allow me to change it? I've got a bunch of mappings I want to put in there.
I've got a browser search redirect imbedded somewhere in my hosts configuration but can't find the file to edit it out and hijackthis cannot fix it. The c:/windows/system32/etc/hosts is merely a sample and it's not buried in the registry. Where is the file that contains this rubbish?
View 4 Replies View RelatedChanges I've made on windowssystem32driversetchosts file are ignored by web browsers like IE, Firefox on Windows 7 x64.
On the other hand, ping command seems aware of hosts file. It gives the output of 127.0.0.1 for web addresses which are opened by web browsers normally.
I followed the instructions on this page: url...I renamed my hosts file "hosts.orig", downloaded, unzipped, and saved another hosts file from url... named HOSTS in the same place as the original. After that, I couldn't connect to the internet at home or at the library. I tried deleting the "new" hosts file that I downloaded, in order to put things back to how they used to be, but any time I try to do something to the "HOSTS" file I get a pop up saying: "The action can't be completed because the file is open in Cryptographic Services.... close the file and try again" which doesn't work. I tried stopping the DNS thing, but that only worked for about 5 minutes. I restarted the computer because it was slowing down, and the DNS thing restarted itself, and the internet disconnected again. I try stopping it, but an error message saying "Windows could not stop the DNS client service on local computer. error 1053: the service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"
View 1 Replies View RelatedWindows 7 64 bitI went to the Microsoft website and reset the hosts file. (I just copied the text on the page that said it was for the Windows 7 hosts) Prior to the hosts reset, the only text in there was 120.0.0.1 localhost. Anyone know what this means? This happened one other time before, so it has to be something.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedYesterday I updated Windows 7 x86 to SP1 and today found out that all my local virtual hosts has stopped working. First, I checked apache service - it was ok, but I restarted it. Then I tried to ping one of local domain names:
Code: C:Usersevgeny g likov>ping aaa1
Ping request could not find host aaa1. Please check the name and try again. I was thinking, SP1 setup just wiped all additions out of hosts file, but no:
Code: 127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 aaa1
127.0.0.1 aaa2
[Code].....
I have tried to move the hosts file location by changing the registrykeyHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpipParametersDataBasePathto the desired folder location.However, it appears that this key is somehow ignored by my system (Windows 7 64 bit) and the default location%SystemRoot%system32driversetc is still the one where the hosts file is read.I notice it because any changes made to the hosts file in the default location are detected (I check it with the ping command) and any changes to the new location are simply ignoredI have copied and pasted the hosts file with different values between the default and new folder, so I guess it is not a problem with the hosts file having the wrong format. I also copied and paste the new folder path to the registry key so it is also not a problem of having misspelled the folder path, either. I also restarted the computer after changing the registry key.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to centralize the Hosts file onto a network hard disk for a group of computers at my work place. However, the HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpipParametersDatabasePath registry item appears to be ignored by WIndows7. So far, after hours of researching on the Internet, and experimentation on one Win7 machine (Home Ed.), I have come to a personal conclusion that Windows7 does not support the DatabasePath anymore, and the existence of DatabasePath is either a left-over or backward-compatibility for apps and programs. I have found on the Internet only one (ask&ans) post on Aug/24/2011 that directly asks about both Win7 and the fact that the DatabasePath registry value being ignored. From the Internet, it seems that the problem with relocating the Hosts file happens mostly with Win7 (and works fine with WInXP), and any problems in the other Windows versions are mainly due to errors of some kind with either the registry's DatabasePath, or the Hosts file, or security authorization. In my experiments, I used a temporary folder in my 'c' drive to hold the test Hosts file, and I verified the following points:
-My test Hosts file does work as I've copied and tested it in the WindowsSystem32driversetc folder.
-No matter what the HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpipParametersDatabasePath is set to in the registry, Win7 will always read the Hosts file in c:WindowsSystem32driversetc even after a reboot or "ipconfig /flushdns."
-I could MOVE the etc folder to the Windows folder, set DatabasePath to c:Windowsetc (or even %SystemRoot%etc), reboot, and Win7 will still try to find 'Hosts' in c:WindowsSystem32driversetc, after which Win7 operates as if the Hosts file was empty. (After verifying that Win7 will not load the Hosts file from c:Windowsetc, moving the etc folder back to c:WindowsSystem32drivers, and either rebooting or issuing an "ipconfig /flushdns"--without changing the registry--will reload the Hosts file table properly.)
-On the chance a program was interfering, I did a clean boot (using msconfig to prevent loading all non-system programs at boot-up), and Win7 still tried to read a c:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts file when DatabasePath was pointed somewhere else.
-The registry really is case-INsensitive.
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