Unable to modify Hosts.ini even after changing folder...

Hi Everyone,

I have created a Local Account and assigned it Administrator rights. However whenever I go to change sensitive files I am presented with an 'Access Denied' message, here is an example of the message that I receive when attempting to add a host to Hosts.ini -



In addition to the account being set to Administrator (type) I have also made the group 'Administrators' the owners of the 'etc' folder, and assigned full control to this group!



Even with the above settings I am still unable to change the host entries in Hosts.ini!

If anybody knows how I can give myself the required access can you please share?

Kind Regards,

Davo

Instead of changing the folder/file permissions, open Notepad as administrator (Right-click > Run as administrator), then goto File > Open and navigate to the hosts file.

In the 'open file' dialogue box you'll have to change the file extension drop down box from 'Text Documents (*.txt) to 'All Files (*.*)' so that it shows the hosts file.

If you're running Windows Defender, it'll probably give an alert for SettingsModifier:Win32/PossibleHostsFileHijack, which you'll need to allow (as it's you who's modifying it). Also double check your entries as Defender used to automatically delete some entries (such as facebook.com).

Hi ARC1020,

Your suggestion worked perfectly. Thank you for responding to my post.

Kind Regards,

Davo