Hello everyone, happy late Christmas! Anyways, you know how when you try to download from Oxyshare.com there is this generousgenie.com (Might be different from yours, but same thing happens) ad that seems to interfer with your downloading (By going to generousgenie.com site with an offer, or basically taking you away from the download page. This makes it impossable to download from Oxyshare.com because there is a time limit you have to wait for.) ? Well here is a quick and easy way to get rid of this problem.
Step 1 is to find this file called "hosts". It holds what we need.
(In Windows XP, the hosts file is found here:
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts)
Once you have found the hosts file, right click it and select Properties. Uncheck the "Read-Only" attribute (if checked). Click OK.
Double click the 'Hosts' file and select "Notepad" from the list of programs to open it with.
Once you have the hosts file open in Notepad, you will see an entry such as:
127.0.0.1 localhost
To block a certain web page from loading (generousgenie.com is this case.), add the following:
127.0.0.1 www.generousgenie.com
Your Hosts file should now look like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www.generousgenie.com
Add as many web addresses as you like in the same fashion.
Once you are finished, go up to 'File' and click 'Save'.
The web pages listed in your 'Hosts' file should be blocked from access. It may be necessary for you to reboot your computer for these changes to take effect.
How simple was that? Anyways, hope you enjoyed this and hope it helps you!
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