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Article #417Re: PETER FOLDES Does not know how to give computer advice AVOID IT!!
From: FromTheRafters
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:46
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:46
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G. Morgan wrote: > FromTheRafters wrote: > >> "G. Morgan"<sealteam6@osama-is-dead.net> wrote in message >> news:p695d7hqhp59dguvtrjeg9753esnlv080j@Osama-is-dead.net... >>> Peter the Stupid (PtS) can't make his mind up if a HOSTS file is >>> advisable. Here are two posts 1.5 hours apart from each other. First he >>> says that using a HOSTS file is 'bad advice', only an hour and half >>> later he does a 180?and recommends one. >> >> That's not the way I read it. It looked to me like PF wanted to warn against >> BD's suggestion about reducing the hosts file to its default (nearly empty) >> state just to see if a slowdown is being caused by it. BD *did* ask Betty if it >> was being actively used. > > What about this gem: "Use one yes but not that outdated one from MS" I don't use one, and I'm not alone in this. ...but that's another story. > What MS one is he talking about? Following the KB article just resets > the file to the default example one. Does M$ distribute a pre-populated > HOSTS file that I'm unaware of? > Not that I am aware of, but neither did BD's posted suggestion. It suggested returning the hosts file to its default nearly empty condition as provided by Microsoft. Sure, the process (even the 'fix it for me' one) creates a backup in the form of "hosts.old" it does nothing about giving back whatever was populating it. (seems a lot of trouble to go through when a pristine copy is in i386) I assume any active anti-badstuff program would immediately re-populate it in that case, but it is not good to assume too much.
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Subject: Re: PETER FOLDES Does not know how to give computer advice AVOID
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