Whatever the reasons, blocking particular websites on a Windows operating system is pretty easy. And there are not one but many different ways to achieve that.

Steps to Block Particular Websites On Your Computer

Hence, if you are looking for ways to block particular websites on your computer, you are reading the right guide. Below, we have shared the best ways to block particular websites on your computer. Let’s get started.

  1. First, click on start and type “Windows explorer” and the open windows system drive. Now browse the host file from the location C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc.
  2. Now you will see a few files over there. You don’t need to do anything but copy the “host” file over then and take a backup of it.
  3. Now open the “Host” file and edit it with a notepad.
  4. Type 127.0.0.1, press the spacebar once, and then type the address of a website you want to block. For example, to block all traffic from YouTube, type 127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com on this line. And Save it. That’s it! You are done. You can put many websites followed by the IP address. If you want to unblock any listed website, simply edit the “host” file and remove the desired website to be unblocked. This is the best and easiest way to block any website on your computer.

Blocking Sites On Browser:

Block Site automatically blocks websites of your choice. Best for procrastination problems. Add a website you want to block in the options, and it is automatically blocked. When you try to go to this page, it will be redirected to a dedicated Block Site page.

  1. First, download and install the Block Site extension on your Google Chrome Browser.

  2. Once added, you will see the icon in the extension manager. You need to right-click on it and choose “Option“

  3. Now you will see the screen like below.

  4. Now you need to enter the URL that you want to block and then click on “Add Page“

  5. You can even set the redirect URL after setting up the blocked sites. That’s it! You are done. Now, if you visit the blocked site, you will get the error message like this “site is blocked by Block Site”.

If you want to unblock the site, you need to right-click on the extension and choose Option. You need to click the remove button to unblock the blocked site.

So, that’s how easy it is to block websites on Windows operating system. If you know any other way to block specific websites on a computer, let us know in the comments.

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