activate changes to hosts file

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bbxrider

in xp pro, is there any way to activate changes to the hosts other than
rebooting??
googling turned up, something like 'you may have to reboot depending on
windows version'
so even better is there a list somewhere which os's have to be rebooted and
how diff os's can
be activated without updating
t hanks
bbx
 
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Mike Lowery

bbxrider said:
in xp pro, is there any way to activate changes to the hosts other than
rebooting??
googling turned up, something like 'you may have to reboot depending on
windows version'
so even better is there a list somewhere which os's have to be rebooted and
how diff os's can
be activated without updating
t hanks
bbx
Click to expand...

No need to reboot, but you may need to disable the DNS Client service.
 

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