How To Block A Website On Your Computer

There are various reasons why you might want to block certain websites on your computer. Whatever your reason is, just sit tight and go through this post to get enlightened on the topic.

Blocking a website is not as hard as people think, infact it’s actually easy. All it requires is a little knowledge of copy and pasting.

Basically, These are the two ways to go about blocking websites.

1. You can choose to block websites from your pc directly

2. You can choose to do it on a specified browser on your pc.

From your computer

For e.g. you want to block www.facebook.com, all you need do is

* Open the folder C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc. There you will find a file named HOSTS

* Click on the file and now right click on it and open with Notepad to open the file.

* Now, in the file, place the cursor at the end of the last line ‘127.0.0.1 localhost’ now press enter to create another line

* now to block facebook just type in ‘127.0.0.2 www.facebook.com’ (without the apostrophes)

(Note: you can add more than one website, all you need do is create another line)

* Now click on Save to apply settings!

To unblock the website just do the opposite!

Another easy way of blocking websites is by doing it directly on the browser of your choice

Below I’m going to be showing you how to do it on

Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet explorer.

Blocking a website on Firefox

On Firefox, all you need do is to in can install this addon known as Blocksite to block website.

1. Install the addon, press ctrl+shift+a, and click Extensions on the left. Now open Options under BlockSite. Now type the name’s’ of the website you want blocked. Yes, you can add more than 1. After you are done, Click OK.

Note:

You can prevent people from editing your list of blocked sites by setting a password in BlockSite. This can be done via the options menu.

Blocking a website on Google Chrome

Google chrome also supports Blocksite. After installing it, go to Options under BlockSite. and type the name’s’ of the website you want blocked. And click on add page.
you can also open the site you want to block then right click and goto blocksite and select add current site to blacklist.

Blocking a website on Internet explorer

1. Open the browser and go to Tools (alt+x) > Internet Options. Now click the security tab and then click the restricted sites icon. Click the Sites button below the icon.

2. Now manually type the websites you intend to block one-by-one. Click Add after typing the name of each site. When done, click ok at apply your new settings..