Are you worried about the safety of the little ones at home? So you can limit the websites they visit in Windows 10

Internet today is a tremendously useful tool with which we have access to all kinds of content. A tool that is nonetheless very dangerous if not used properly, especially by the little ones in the house who ironically many times have more knowledge of how to move around the network than their parents.

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In this sense, it is more important than ever to control what they can do, what they can see, where our children can surf A control of Security that is also not limited only to computer equipment, since even on consoles we can carry out this Parental Control (I have been testing it on the Nintendo Switch for a few days).This is also a possibility that Windows 10 allows natively."

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In this way we save ourselves from having to use third-party applications or complicated parental control systems. A process that will only require modifying the Windows 10 HOSTS file A type of file that in operating systems is used to store the correspondence between Internet domains and IP addresses."

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The first step is to locate the file, which can be found in the System32 folder that we talked about a few days ago (about the importance of it and the severity of touching files without the proper knowledge). The exact path to find the HOSTS file is C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc"

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We already have it located and then we proceed to open Notepad but with a precaution: we have to open it by enabling administrator permissions for which we will have to use the right mouse button or _trackpad_."

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If we do not want to have to use administrator permissions we can drag or copy the file from the previous path that we indicated to the desktop."

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Once we have opened Notepad, we look inside the Open menu and open the file where we have located it (either in the desktop well in the original path) and once inside add a line like this at the end of the file:"

127.0.0.1 www.direcciónqueremoscontrolar.com

Here we will put the page to which we want to prevent access and if we want to prevent access to several we will write the same type of line with the appropriate addresses. Thus, when trying to enter the browser will return a message advising that you cannot access that website.

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In the case of having modified the HOSTS file that we have located on the desktop touch then move it to the original location for the changes to take effectIf we have opened the file from the original location, we will only have to save it, although in both cases we must be careful and not save it as a text file."

A file with which we must be especially careful, especially not to load it with too many processes that can cause slower operation of our system.And a system that prevents us from having to resort to complicated configurations and third-party applications.

"In Xataka Windows | Windows has untouchable folders that you should not tamper with if you don&39;t want to take unnecessary risks"