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SysMate Hosts File Walker is a freeware to edit or modify the hosts file in Windows. With Host File Walker you can add as many records to system hosts file.

Modifying the actual hosts file on Android requires root access, but this tool uses Android's VPN API to achieve the same functionality. And for the next week, it's free on the Play Store.

After saving the hosts file, I verified that javatester.org was indeed, re-directed to computergripes.com. Security Essentials was running the whole time and didn’t object.

The hosts file ought never to have a file type extension like .txt. However, many Vista installs - and Windows 7 upgrades from Vista - will present an Administrator with a read only hosts file.

When I googled "Windows 2003 host file ignored", something popped up about DnsNbtLookupOrder which was no help.