Changing your hosts in windows vista
So you are unable to change the hosts file in windows vista. eh ? Mr. gill bates made it secure(as they believe), well it is secure just for the local user and nothing else.. Anyways, to change the hosts, you got do a little linux kinda appraoch..
Press start type notepad and when you see notepad on the menu, right click it and press “Run as Administrator”
not click File>Open and goto c:windowssystem32driversetc and open hosts file. you can always do all files in the file type option.
now you can always edit the hosts and save it as per you requirement. 
Follow the steps to quickly do the above said ::
1) ) Browse to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
2) Right click “Notepad” and select “Run as administrator”
3) Click “Continue” on the UAC prompt
4) Click File -> Open
5) Browse to “C:WindowsSystem32Driversetc”
6) Change the file filter drop down box from “Text Documents (*.txt)” to “All Files (*.*)”
7) Select “hosts” and click “Open”
8 ) Make the needed changes and save the file
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