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The hosts file is one of several system facilities that assists in addressing network nodes in a computer network. It is a common part of an operating system's Internet Protocol (IP) implementation, and serves the function of translating human-friendly hostnames into numeric protocol addresses, called IP addresses, that identify and locate a host in an IP network.
If you are looking for a simple, general mechanism for the local specification of IP addresses for specific hostnames (server names), use the HOSTS file, not the LMHOSTS file. The file, if it exists, is read as the LMHOSTS setting file. A sample file (lmhosts.sam) is provided. It contains documentation for manually configuring the file.
Parsing of the "hosts" file: The lookup functions read only the hosts file if they cannot off-load their task onto the DNS Client service and have to fall back to communicating with DNS servers themselves. In turn, the DNS Client service reads the "hosts" file once, at startup, and only re-reads it if it notices that the last modification ...
File Explorer (Preview Panes) adds SVG, Markdown and PDF previews to File Explorer. [27] File Locksmith adds the ability to check which files are in use and by which processes. [28] Host File Editor adds the ability to edit the 'Hosts' file in a convenient way. [28] Image Resizer adds a context menu to File Explorer for resizing images. [29]
In 2009, Microsoft released Windows Virtual PC, which is only compatible with Windows 7 hosts, [a] and is the technical foundation for the latter's Windows XP Mode. Windows Virtual PC does not officially support MS-DOS or operating systems older than Windows XP Professional SP3 as guests. [3] Virtual PC was discontinued in 2011 in favour of ...
Does that key really works? I made a couple of checks, and it appears that the key works on Windows 2000, but is ignored on Windows XP and Windows Vista (the path to the hosts file on XP/Vista seems to be hardcoded into the dnsapi.dll module, which is used by both Dnscache (aka DNS Client) service and winsock). Could someone confirm this behavior ?
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The first, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, was intended for IA-64 systems; as IA-64 usage declined on workstations in favor of AMD's x86-64 architecture, the Itanium edition was discontinued in January 2005. [57] A new 64-bit edition supporting the x86-64 architecture, called Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, was released in April 2005. [58]