Some of you may have young children or children watching TV at home. In this case, you might not want them to have access to certain websites because the content is inappropriate for their age. A good way to do this is to restrict website access . This can be done in Windows 10 by following a few steps.
This way, they won't be able to access these websites whenever they use this Windows 10 computer . Therefore, it's a good way to limit this access. What steps do we need to take in this case?
In this case, we'll need to modify the Windows 10 HOSTS file . This file, located in the operating system, stores the correspondence between internet domains and IP addresses. By modifying this file, we can restrict access to certain websites.
This file is located in the System32 folder. Specifically, the path we need to follow to reach it is: C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc. There we find this particular file. However, the first thing we need to do is open Notepad with administrator privileges. So, we search for Notepad in the search box and when it appears, we right-click on it.
In Notepad, locate the Open menu and open the HOSTS file. Locate the file in its file location. Once open, add the following line to the end of the file :
- 127.0.0.1 www.direcciononqueremosbloqueo.com
Specifically, we need to enter the name of the website we want to block in Windows 10. Any website you like. We can add more than one website, but in that case, we'll need to add more lines to the file. One line per website we want to block.
Once you've entered the websites you want to block, you need to save the hosts file back to its original folder . This is how the changes you've made will be applied to Windows 10. Therefore, you must save it in the folder we mentioned at the beginning. This way, the websites you've blocked will no longer be accessible on this Windows 10 computer.