Thanks Ya'll, it's very kind of you to take the time to offer your help.
Apparently I have more problems then these symptoms indicate. No matter what
combination of quotes or no quotes, and Text Documents or All Files I select,
the saved Hosts file always ends up in C:Windows as either Hosts as a WMP
icon or Hosts.txt. I'll keep trying to identify all the symptoms and come
back when I have more info to work with. I really appreciate your taking the
time to consider my promlem. K.

"PCR" wrote:

Yea, that didn't work for me, either, though some say it would.

Well, another way to go is to put quotes around the name in the save
box: "HOSTS". This will suppress the .txt extension & only use what is
inside the quotes.


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"K" wrote in message
...
| Everything went fine till: "To save without the TXT extension, change
the
| "Save
| As..." to "All Files". I opened Notepad, clicked File-Save As, changed
"Save
| as file type:" to All Files, labeled File Name: Hosts, clicked Save,
and got
| another Hosts.txt. What do you spose I'm doing wrong? K.
|
| "Gary S. Terhune" wrote:
|
| "K" wrote in message
| ...
| Something appears to have happened to my Hosts file. The Hosts
file
| icon in
| Windows Explorer has changed to the Windows Media Player icon.
When I
| click
| on it , the Windows Media Player comes up followed by the Error
| window.
|
| Open Windows Explorer, go to View menuFolder Options. Click on
| Filetypes tab. Look for the entry for HOSTS and delete it.
|
| I deleted the Hosts file (Media Player), opened a Notebook file,
and
| saved it
| in C:Windows as Hosts. It appeared in C:Windows as Hosts.txt.
|
| Becasue the default when you save a file in Notepad is "As TXT
file", so
| it adds ".txt" to the filename you enter (unless it's already
".txt"--it
| doesn't repeat it.) To save without the TXT extension, change the
"Save
| As..." to "All Files".
|
| Somewhere in my
| reading about the Hosts file I think I read that the Hosts file in
| C:Windows
| does not contain a file extension. When I renamed Hosts.txt to
Hosts,
| the
| icon changed to the Media Player icon. I would like to
re-establish my
| Hosts
| file. Would anyone know if that is possible?
|
| As I intimated above, you managed to associate HOSTS as being a WMP
| file. You need to delete the HOSTS entry in Filetypes. Just so you
know,
| though, this file association glitch doesn't affect the functioning
of
| the HOSTS file--it only affects what happens when you double-click
the
| file to read it.
|
| Then of course the next question
| is how to build a safe Hosts File? All ideas, suggestions and
comments
| will
| be greatly appreciated. Thanks, K.
|
| Personally, after getting rid of the erroneous Filetype, I'd
recommend
| you use the MVP HOSTS file from
| http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm One of the easiest ways to
use
| that HOSTS file is to get George Geyde's "HOSTS File Manager". You
can
| find it at the bottom of this page:
| http://www.mvps.org/PracticallyNerded/Software.htm
|
| On the former site (the winhelp2002 site) you'll find lots of
helpful
| documentation. The "HOSTS File Manager" Help section includes a bit
| about adding custom sites to the MVPS HOSTS file.
|
| --
| Gary S. Terhune
| MS MVP Shell/User
| http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
| http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm
|
|
|