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Simplify windows instructions

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You know, there’s win + r which is way simpler

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Created 8 years ago
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StevenBlackcommented, Mar 31, 2016

No, that isn’t the right way 😄 though, hey, two points for you for thinking outside-the-box.

The reason the Windows hosts file isn’t copied is because the Windows access control story is a monumental cluster.

Heck, in the Windows VMs I use, I can’t even get programs I’ve manually pinned to the task bar to not notify me of scary dangers every time I invoke them.

Windows is just broken. You have my sympathies.

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StevenBlackcommented, Jan 28, 2017

Hi @07416 that’s right. The Python script assembles all the components and creates the unified files that include your whitelist and your own hosts either as data or as extensions.

If you want to skip that then, yes, open the hosts file in a text editor and include your own. Or you could write a batch file to combine the files for you.

The Python script is painless…

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