Computer Learning

[PMS Witch]

Although not exactly the irritation you mentioned, it's close. . .

I had a video opening on a favourite site and nothing I tried would take care of it. Even AdBlock-Plus proved ineffectual.

I ended up putting the source of the video into my system's Host file with an address of 0.0.0.0

That fixed it instantly.

Peace at last.

Cheers, PW.



P.S. These days, I don't remember so well so I use .CMD files to automate stuff. Here's the .CMD file I use to replace my Hosts file (or jog my recollection of both where to find it and use Elevated privileges). . .

@ECHO OFF
REG QUERY "HKU\S-1-5-19" 1>NUL 2>NUL || (ECHO Run as Administrator & GOTO :EOF)
TITLE Re-Name Windows Hosts file and Install new Hosts file

Copy /Y C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\Hosts C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\_Hosts
Copy /Y D:\Internet\Hosts C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\Hosts
TITLE (*_*)