I have Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and it won't read the hosts file ! I've googled around for quite a long time but I can't fix it, maybe someone here can help me.
I can't see the .txt
extension on the hosts file, but still windows opens it right away with notepad (so i don't know if it got corrupted somehow and it DOES have a .txt
extension but I can't change it cause I can't see it).
If I go to cmd
and type rename hosts.txt hosts
it gives an error and says that
System couldn't find the file
If I try go to regedit
and find
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DataBasePath=
I hit a wall because DataBasePath=
IS NOT listed under parameters, it's like there's no entry. I don't know if my PC got infected with malware or something and it's hiding the hosts file from the registry and the system.