Editing Hosts in vista

A couple readers e-mailed me saying I forgot to mention a tricky fact on Vista - that in order to change the hosts file in any way, you need to do so as Administrator. Actually, I did. Look at the Vista Workaround post way below. But I guess it got buried under all the others.

Anyway, here goes again: all layman++ actions there need to be run as by Admin in order to succeed at all, including running simple batch files. So to change the hosts file via Notepad, open the Notepad as admin by right clicking and choosing Run as Admin. That's it.

Or as another reader kindly directed me, read about some advanced and slightly more complicated methods HERE.