Copy the hosts file onto a USB stick. Edit it and then copy the edited
version back. I have partitions on my harddrive I can copy the hosts file
to and edit it so that is another way.
--
Bill

Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
I'm sure I have edited it since moving to W7! But now when I try, I am
told it is in use: "The process cannot access the file because it is
being used by another process." (The process being plain original
NotePad.) If I try to delete it (having made a copy of course!), I get
"The action can't be completed because the file is open in System".

I've just done a restart, and tried again before opening anything I'd
have thought would be using it - no change. Though as I said, I'm sure
I've edited it before, and that _wouldn't_ have been under those
circumstances.

What's using it? "System" isn't very informative - could be a user
rather than a process.