Posted by Perseus on 09/28/05 04:19

On 27 Sep 2005 20:55:26 -0700, "Kilowatt" <kilowatt@charter.net> wrote:

>The hosts file still exists in c:\windows. What do we do to stop using
>it? Can it just be deleted?

Delete it? No, not wise! Open it with Notepad and look for
redirections to winmx cache servers, then in front of all of those
lines place the '#' sign. So for example the line looking like this:

205.238.40.1 c3310.z1301.winmx.com

gets to look like this:

# 205.238.40.1 c3310.z1301.winmx.com

Furthermore, make sure this entry remains unchanged:

127.0.0.1 localhost

Save the file without an automatic 'txt' extension, and you're done!

Greetz,

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Perseus

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