Hosts

[deltarho]

Is the Hosts file hard-wired to the Windows directory?

[Ridgerunr]

It's where Windoze puts it by default,but the one offered by the OS is only a sample thing and really doesn't do anything in it's original form. I was told to rename it when using a more complete/robust host's file so there wouldn't be conflicts(confuse Winders). There was also a debate as to whether or not to change the IP's to end/start(can't remember which)with zero's to stop problems related to browser windows not finishing loading because it was looking for the ad IP...

[WhitPhil]

I "think" there is a registry key somewhere that controls where it lives.
Why move it?

The one Ridgerunr is referring to is Hosts.sam, whereas the actual operational one is just "HOSTS".

[Ridgerunr]

Oops,,my bad,,forgot the "sam" extension. although it only stands for "SAMple". Nuther one of those Unix carryovers is the "host"(no extension) file as i understand...

[deltarho]

Ridgerunr

Yeah, the choice is either 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0; whichever causes the least grief.

WhitPhil

Yeah, I thought it may be a Shell Folder but it isn't.

Why move it? Oh, provided it wasn't too large I was thinking of having it reside on my Ram Disk which has a save/load image capability. Every bit helps. I have the TIF on the Ram Disk and use backgroung caching of pages. Moving to a cached page in Ram as opposed to disc is very nearly instantaneous.